Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 101
Den we will tek er grape-wine an tie um roun Buh Porpus head, an you an me will tek turrer een, an we sholy kin drag Buh Porpus outer de ribber; an wen we git um out eh gwine dead, an we will hab heap er bittle fuh eat.”
Who acts: Den, you, we, wen · What happens: tek, drag, um out, hab, eat · To what, where: er grape wine, turrer, heap
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, you, we, wen), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tek | nsubj |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tek | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tek | aux |
| 4 | tek | tek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 wine | amod |
| 6 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wine | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grape | punct |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tek | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roun | det |
| 10 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roun | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roun | compound |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wine | appos |
| 13 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | compound |
| 14 | Porpus | Porpus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buh | flat |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roun | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tek | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tek | det |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tek | nsubj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 me | det |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 you | conj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tek | aux |
| 22 | tek | tek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 roun | conj |
| 23 | turrer | turrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tek | obj |
| 24 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 turrer | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drag | punct |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 drag | det |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 drag | nsubj |
| 28 | sholy | sholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drag | compound |
| 29 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 drag | amod |
| 30 | drag | drag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turrer | conj |
| 31 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 drag | appos |
| 32 | Porpus | Porpus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Buh | flat |
| 33 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ribber | amod |
| 34 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ribber | amod |
| 35 | ribber | ribber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Buh | list |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 um | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wen | det |
| 38 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 um | nsubj |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 um | nsubj |
| 40 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 um | compound |
| 41 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tek | obl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 um | compound:prt |
| 43 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 45 dead | advmod |
| 44 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tek | advcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 hab | punct |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 hab | det |
| 48 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 hab | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 hab | aux |
| 50 | hab | hab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tek | conj |
| 51 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 hab | obj |
| 52 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 53 bittle | advmod |
| 53 | bittle | bittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 hab | xcomp |
| 54 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 55 eat | discourse |
| 55 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 bittle | xcomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tek | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tek | future | Den | er grape wine | we nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tek | future | you | turrer and a sholy kin drag | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag | we | Buh outer de ribber appos | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | um out | a wen | we nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hab | future | we | heap | bittle property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | we not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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