Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
Wen eh git close ter um eh notus um good.
To what, where: Wen git
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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 git | compound |
| 2 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 3 git | discourse |
| 3 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 git | amod |
| 5 | ter | ter | X | _ | 8 notus | compound |
| 6 | um | um | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 ter | flat:foreign |
| 7 | eh | eh | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 ter | flat:foreign |
| 8 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 git | conj |
| 9 | um | um | ADV | _ | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 notus | amod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 git | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/5/