Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 177
No man ner ooman gwine fine you.
To what, where: ooman gwine
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 ner | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ner | compound |
| 3 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gwine | nsubj |
| 4 | ooman | ooman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gwine | amod |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gwine | amod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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