Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 71
Eh gen de bag ter Buh Monkey, an eh tell um: “Trouble day een dis yer bag.
To what, where: gen de bag
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | nsubj |
| 2 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | compound |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | compound |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 7 Monkey | case |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Monkey | compound |
| 7 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 um | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 um | det |
| 10 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 um | amod |
| 11 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 um | compound |
| 12 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 dis | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dis | punct |
| 15 | Trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dis | compound |
| 17 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | flat |
| 18 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 um | appos |
| 19 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 bag | amod |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dis | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bag | 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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