Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
Eh hab on new beber hat, wuh shine lucker glass, an eh hab side whisker comb so nice, an glub on eh han, an new cloze, an eh dribe up een er fine carriage wid four horse, an de driber hab er keen lash wuh pop so clear you could yeddy um way down de road.
Who acts: you · What happens: shine, way · To what, where: lucker glass, Eh hab
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 (you), 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | compound |
| 2 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hat | case |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 5 | beber | beber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hat | compound |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shine | punct |
| 8 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 9 shine | discourse |
| 9 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hab | parataxis |
| 10 | lucker | lucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glass | compound |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shine | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 comb | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 comb | det |
| 14 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 comb | amod |
| 15 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | compound |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whisker | compound |
| 17 | whisker | whisker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comb | compound |
| 18 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 nice | advmod |
| 20 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 comb | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glub | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 glub | det |
| 23 | glub | glub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 han | case |
| 25 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 han | amod |
| 26 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glub | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cloze | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cloze | det |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cloze | amod |
| 30 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dribe | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 dribe | det |
| 33 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 dribe | amod |
| 34 | dribe | dribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 een | advmod |
| 36 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 dribe | nmod |
| 37 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 fine | advmod |
| 38 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 carriage | amod |
| 39 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 horse | amod |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 horse | nummod |
| 42 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hab | punct |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 hab | det |
| 45 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hab | amod |
| 46 | driber | driber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hab | compound |
| 47 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hab | conj |
| 48 | er | er | X | _ | 50 lash | compound |
| 49 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 lash | amod |
| 50 | lash | lash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 pop | compound |
| 51 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 52 pop | discourse |
| 52 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hab | parataxis |
| 53 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 clear | advmod |
| 54 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 pop | amod |
| 55 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 59 way | nsubj |
| 56 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 way | aux |
| 57 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 way | compound |
| 58 | um | um | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 way | amod |
| 59 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 clear | obl |
| 60 | down | down | ADV | _ | 59 way | advmod |
| 61 | de | de | ADP | _ | 62 road | case |
| 62 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 down | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hab | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | infinitive | lucker glass | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | |||||
| 2 | way | could | you | down property | 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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