Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
Den eh tun back an smell um gen, an notus um close.
To what, where: Den eh tun
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tun | compound |
| 2 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tun | compound |
| 3 | tun | tun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 tun | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gen | det |
| 6 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | compound |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gen | compound |
| 8 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tun | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 um | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 um | det |
| 11 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 um | compound |
| 12 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tun | conj |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 um | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tun | 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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