Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 110
Den dem sen fuh de ole Afreka nigger.
To what, where: dem sen fuh
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8. 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fuh | nsubj |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fuh | compound |
| 3 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fuh | compound |
| 4 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 fuh | conj |
| 6 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nigger | amod |
| 7 | Afreka | Afreka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nigger | compound |
| 8 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 de | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fuh | 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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