Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 173
Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain an fowl-hawk, an mek um grow fas.
Who acts: fish · What happens: win, grow · To what, where: rain, fas, eh um snake
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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 | Ebry | Ebry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hour | compound |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snake | nsubj |
| 3 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snake | compound |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 um | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 um | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 um | amod |
| 12 | garde | garde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 um | compound |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fish | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 win | case |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 um | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rain | det |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hawk | det |
| 19 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hawk | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fowl | punct |
| 21 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 um | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 um | det |
| 24 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 um | compound |
| 25 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fish | conj |
| 26 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 snake | acl:relcl |
| 27 | fas | fa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 grow | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | infinitive | a rain | a fowl hawk obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent rain=Beneficiary hawk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a fish and a mek um | fas | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fa=Theme |
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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