Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 42
By dis time eh done tek mo ner half de cheese.
What happens: do · To what, where: tek ner half
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | tek | tek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 half | amod |
| 7 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ner | compound |
| 8 | ner | ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | compound |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 done | obj |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 cheese | case |
| 11 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | tek ner half | time | de cheese | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Eventuality |
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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