Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 46
So eh leddown an moan, an beg eh fren fuh help um.
To what, where: fren fuh help 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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 um | advmod |
| 2 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leddown | det |
| 3 | leddown | leddown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 um | nsubj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moan | det |
| 5 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leddown | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beg | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 beg | det |
| 8 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leddown | appos |
| 9 | eh | eh | PUNCT | _ | 8 beg | punct |
| 10 | fren | fren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 um | amod |
| 11 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 um | amod |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 um | compound |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 um | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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