Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 31
Dat house bin een er deestant part er de country, buil on er hill.
To what, where: deestant part er
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 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bin | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | compound |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 er | compound |
| 4 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bin | flat |
| 5 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | nsubj |
| 6 | deestant | deestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 er | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | compound |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 country | compound |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 buil | punct |
| 12 | buil | buil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hill | compound |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buil | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 er | 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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