Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
One mornin, wen eh husbun leff de house fur ten ter eh bidness, an eh wife bin er ramble bout de room, eh fine one key duh heng up by isself.
What happens: heng up
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 mornin | nummod |
| 2 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 husbun | punct |
| 4 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 husbun | compound |
| 5 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 husbun | compound |
| 6 | husbun | husbun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mornin | appos |
| 7 | leff | leff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 husbun | appos |
| 8 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 leff | flat |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fur | compound |
| 10 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leff | appos |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fur | flat |
| 12 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 14 bidness | case |
| 13 | eh | eh | X | _ | 14 bidness | compound |
| 14 | bidness | bidness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 husbun | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bin | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bin | det |
| 17 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bin | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | compound |
| 19 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mornin | conj |
| 20 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 bout | amod |
| 21 | ramble | ramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bout | compound |
| 22 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | appos |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 room | compound |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bout | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mornin | punct |
| 26 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 27 fine | discourse |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 fine | parataxis |
| 29 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heng | amod |
| 30 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 31 heng | discourse |
| 31 | heng | heng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 heng | compound:prt |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 isself | case |
| 34 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heng | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heng up | gerund | by isself | 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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