Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont trus you eenemy fuh done um.
Who acts: Wen, you, eenemy fuh · What happens: want, do, call, fren, fuh · To what, where: somebody fuh, you, pon, um · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Wen, you, eenemy fuh), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 fuh | compound |
| 5 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | sarbis | sarbis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | parataxis |
| 11 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fren | nsubj |
| 13 | fren | fren | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pon | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trus | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 trus | cc |
| 16 | dont | dont | X | _ | 17 trus | compound |
| 17 | trus | trus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fuh | nsubj |
| 19 | eenemy | eenemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fuh | compound |
| 20 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trus | appos |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fuh | acl |
| 22 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Wen | somebody fuh | you nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuh=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present | Wen not said here | you | sarbis obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | infinitive | pon | dont trus xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pon=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fren | present | you | pon not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fuh | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | do | participle | eenemy fuh not said here | um | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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