Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
Dem cant gree how eh fuh dewide, an dem call een de Fox fuh jedge between um.
Who acts: Dem cant · What happens: gree · To what, where: dewide call de Fox
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 (Dem cant), 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 | Dem | dem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cant | amod |
| 2 | cant | cant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gree | nsubj |
| 3 | gree | gree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dewide | advmod |
| 5 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 7 dewide | advmod |
| 6 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 7 dewide | discourse |
| 7 | dewide | dewide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Fox | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | compound |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 12 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 call | flat |
| 13 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gree | obj |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 16 jedge | discourse |
| 16 | jedge | jedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gree | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 um | case |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jedge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gree | infinitive | Dem cant | dewide call de Fox | jedge obj | tree rules |
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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