Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 33
De King, him bin so rejoice eh gib high praise ter de cunjur man, an eh gie um big money, an mek um rich.
Who acts: De King, eh · What happens: rejoice, gib, gie · To what, where: high praise ter, um
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 (De King, eh), 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 | 2 King | compound |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoice | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 him | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | bin | bin | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rejoice | aux |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 rejoice | advmod |
| 7 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gib | nsubj |
| 9 | gib | gib | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rejoice | parataxis |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ter | amod |
| 11 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | compound |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gib | obj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 man | compound |
| 14 | cunjur | cunjur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | compound |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eh | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 eh | det |
| 18 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | conj |
| 19 | gie | gie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gib | conj |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gie | obj |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 money | amod |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 um | punct |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 um | det |
| 25 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 um | compound |
| 26 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | conj |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 um | amod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | present | De King man | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gib | present | eh | high praise ter and de cunjur man and a eh | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gie | infinitive | eh not said here | um and big money and a mek um | tree rules |
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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