Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 3
Anybody wuh gwine back on eh prommus, an try fuh harm de pusson wuh done um a faber, sho ter meet up wid big trouble.
Who acts: Anybody · What happens: gwine back, do, meet up · To what, where: pusson wuh, sho ter, eh prommus
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 (Anybody), 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 | Anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 gwine | nsubj |
| 2 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 3 gwine | discourse |
| 3 | gwine | gwine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 gwine | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 prommus | case |
| 6 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prommus | compound |
| 7 | prommus | prommus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harm | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 harm | det |
| 10 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fuh | compound |
| 11 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harm | compound |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prommus | appos |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 harm | flat:foreign |
| 14 | pusson | pusson | X | _ | 15 wuh | compound |
| 15 | wuh | wuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harm | conj |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wuh | acl |
| 17 | um | um | ADP | _ | 19 faber | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 faber | det |
| 19 | faber | faber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ter | punct |
| 21 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 22 ter | compound |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obl |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gwine | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 meet | compound:prt |
| 25 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trouble | amod |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trouble | amod |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gwine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine back | infinitive | Anybody | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | pusson wuh not said here | um a faber | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet up | present | sho ter | eh prommus | wid big trouble obj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Co-Agent |
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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