Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 74
Not a tree nur a stump bin in dat fiel.
To what, where: tree nur
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 nur | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nur | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nur | compound |
| 4 | nur | nur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bin | det |
| 6 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | compound |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nur | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fiel | case |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fiel | compound |
| 10 | fiel | fiel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nur | 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/pg76586/4/74/