Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
Dat night dem camp een de en er de street, an halfer de soldier bin on one side de cart, an tarruh half bin on tarruh side duh guade de body er de tief wuh head cut off.
What happens: cut off · To what, where: head, night dem camp
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 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 camp | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | compound |
| 3 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | compound |
| 4 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | een | een | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 camp | conj |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 een | flat |
| 7 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 een | flat |
| 8 | er | er | X | _ | 10 street | compound |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 er | flat:foreign |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bin | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bin | det |
| 13 | halfer | half | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 bin | amod |
| 14 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | compound |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | compound |
| 16 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 side | nummod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | nmod |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 cart | compound |
| 21 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bin | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bin | det |
| 24 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 half | compound |
| 25 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 bin | compound |
| 26 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 camp | appos |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 side | compound |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bin | nmod |
| 30 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 31 guade | discourse |
| 31 | guade | guade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 body | compound |
| 32 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 guade | flat:foreign |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tief | nsubj |
| 34 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 tief | nsubj |
| 35 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 er | flat:foreign |
| 36 | tief | tief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bin | conj |
| 37 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 38 head | discourse |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tief | nsubj |
| 39 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 head | acl |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 cut | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | head not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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