Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 23
One time day was a berry pooty noung ooman name May Belle.
Who acts: One time day, berry pooty · What happens: be, noung · To what, where: berry pooty, ooman name
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 (One time day, berry pooty), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pooty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pooty | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pooty | det |
| 6 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pooty | compound |
| 7 | pooty | pooty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | noung | noung | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 pooty | acl |
| 9 | ooman | ooman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noung | obj |
| 11 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Belle | compound |
| 12 | Belle | Belle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pooty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One time day | a berry pooty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | noung | gerund | a berry pooty not said here | ooman name | 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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