Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 43
Groun-mole, bin berry tick.
What happens: bin · To what, where: berry tick, Groun mole
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 | Groun | Groun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mole | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Groun | punct |
| 3 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bin | punct |
| 5 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mole | parataxis |
| 6 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tick | compound |
| 7 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | infinitive | berry tick | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tick=Theme |
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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