Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 131
Eh run tru de gaden, an eh mek fuh de wood.
To what, where: run tru gaden
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gaden | nsubj |
| 2 | run | run | X | _ | 5 gaden | compound |
| 3 | tru | tru | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 gaden | amod |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 tru | flat |
| 5 | gaden | gaden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fuh | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fuh | det |
| 8 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fuh | amod |
| 9 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fuh | compound |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gaden | appos |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 wood | compound |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fuh | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gaden | 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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