Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
De Debble, him kin tek all sorter shape fuh cahr out him plan an fool people.
Who acts: Debble shape cahr · What happens: plan · To what, where: fool people
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: who acts (Debble shape cahr), 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 Debble | compound |
| 2 | Debble | Debble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cahr | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Debble | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Debble | obj |
| 5 | kin | kin | ADV | _ | 6 tek | advmod |
| 6 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Debble | nmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 shape | det |
| 8 | sorter | sorter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shape | amod |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cahr | compound |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 shape | discourse |
| 11 | cahr | cahr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plan | nsubj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cahr | nmod |
| 14 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 16 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | compound |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plan | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present | Debble shape cahr out de | a fool people | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
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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