Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 20
De nex mornin wen de edder serbant duh clean de King shoes, de cunjur man gone up ter um an pint eh finger right een eh face, an eh say: “You duh de tird man wuh know bout dis Ring an help fuh tief um.”
Who acts: eh, You, de tird man · What happens: go up, say, man, know · To what, where: de cunjur man, dis Ring, nex mornin wen · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, You, de tird man), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | nsubj |
| 2 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | compound |
| 3 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | compound |
| 4 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 serbant | compound |
| 6 | edder | edder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serbant | compound |
| 7 | serbant | serbant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | conj |
| 8 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 12 shoes | discourse |
| 9 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 10 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | compound |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shoes | compound |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 serbant | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 man | compound |
| 15 | cunjur | cunjur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | conj |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 gone | compound:prt |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | compound |
| 20 | um | um | ADP | _ | 24 finger | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 finger | det |
| 22 | pint | pint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eh | compound |
| 23 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finger | compound |
| 24 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | obl |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 28 face | advmod |
| 26 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 face | nummod |
| 27 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 face | amod |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eh | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 eh | det |
| 31 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 say | nsubj |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wen | parataxis |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
| 35 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 man | nsubj |
| 36 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 39 man | discourse |
| 37 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 man | compound |
| 38 | tird | tird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | appos |
| 40 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 41 know | discourse |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 man | acl:relcl |
| 42 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dis | compound |
| 43 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Ring | compound |
| 44 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 know | obj |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 um | det |
| 46 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fuh | compound |
| 47 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 tief | compound |
| 48 | tief | tief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 um | compound |
| 49 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Ring | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | participle | de cunjur man een eh face not said here | um a eh finger; ter compound | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | a eh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | man in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | de tird man not said here | dis Ring a tief um | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus |
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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