Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
Eh jaw duh run water, fuh eh tink ter ehself de Debble guine gem some nice brukwus.
Who acts: Eh jaw, ehself, Debble guine · What happens: run, tink, de, gem · To what, where: water, ter, nice brukwus
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: who acts (Eh jaw, ehself, Debble guine), 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jaw | compound |
| 2 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 4 run | discourse |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 7 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 4 run | discourse |
| 8 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 9 tink | discourse |
| 9 | tink | tink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tink | obj |
| 11 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 de | nsubj |
| 12 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ter | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Debble | Debble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 guine | compound |
| 14 | guine | guine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gem | nsubj |
| 15 | gem | gem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tink | parataxis |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 brukwus | det |
| 17 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brukwus | amod |
| 18 | brukwus | brukwus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gem | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | infinitive | Eh jaw | water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tink | infinitive | ter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | de | past | ehself | ter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gem | present | Debble guine | some nice brukwus | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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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