Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
Eh tired befo eh retch de middle er de fiel.
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 | 2 tired | compound |
| 2 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 5 retch | case |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 retch | amod |
| 5 | retch | retch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tired | obl |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 retch | flat:foreign |
| 7 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fiel | amod |
| 8 | er | er | X | _ | 10 fiel | compound |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 er | flat:foreign |
| 10 | fiel | fiel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 retch | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tired | 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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