Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
De nex mornin, wen eh bin er tek eh ride, soon es eh git outer yearin, eh biggin fuh cry, an fuh pity isself, an say eh wish eh bin back ter eh farruh house, an talk eh mine dat eh faid eh husbun, wen eh git tired long um, gwine kill um an heng um long de tarruh ooman wuh day een de closet duh garret.
Who acts: es, ooman · What happens: yearin, say, closet · To what, where: eh eh bin, De nex mornin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (es, ooman), 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 | 3 mornin | compound |
| 2 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mornin | compound |
| 3 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wen | punct |
| 5 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mornin | conj |
| 6 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bin | amod |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | compound |
| 8 | er | er | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 5 wen | appos |
| 9 | tek | tek | X | _ | 8 er | goeswith |
| 10 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ride | det |
| 11 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yearin | punct |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 yearin | advmod |
| 14 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 yearin | nsubj |
| 15 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 git | amod |
| 16 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yearin | compound |
| 17 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 yearin | amod |
| 18 | yearin | yearin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mornin | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cry | punct |
| 20 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 23 cry | discourse |
| 21 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | compound |
| 22 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cry | amod |
| 23 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mornin | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pity | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pity | det |
| 26 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pity | amod |
| 27 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | conj |
| 28 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 pity | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 say | det |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mornin | parataxis |
| 32 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bin | amod |
| 33 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eh | compound |
| 34 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bin | compound |
| 35 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 say | obj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 bin | advmod |
| 37 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 38 eh | case |
| 38 | eh | eh | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 house | dep |
| 39 | farruh | farruh | INTJ | _ | 40 house | discourse |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 say | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 talk | punct |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 talk | det |
| 43 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 house | nmod |
| 44 | eh | eh | ADP | _ | 45 mine | case |
| 45 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 talk | nmod |
| 46 | dat | dat | ADV | Typo=Yes | 48 faid | advmod |
| 47 | eh | eh | X | _ | 46 dat | goeswith |
| 48 | faid | faid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 husbun | amod |
| 49 | eh | eh | X | _ | 50 husbun | compound |
| 50 | husbun | husbun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 talk | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 wen | punct |
| 52 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 husbun | conj |
| 53 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 git | amod |
| 54 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 husbun | conj |
| 55 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 um | amod |
| 56 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 um | amod |
| 57 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 git | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 um | punct |
| 59 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 um | compound |
| 60 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 um | compound |
| 61 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 husbun | conj |
| 62 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 um | det |
| 63 | heng | heng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 um | compound |
| 64 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 long | obl:unmarked |
| 65 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 um | amod |
| 66 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 61 um | flat:foreign |
| 67 | tarruh | tarruh | INTJ | _ | 73 closet | discourse |
| 68 | ooman | ooman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 closet | nsubj |
| 69 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 73 closet | discourse |
| 70 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 closet | compound |
| 71 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 70 day | flat |
| 72 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 73 closet | compound |
| 73 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 husbun | conj |
| 74 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 75 garret | discourse |
| 75 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 closet | conj |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mornin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yearin | es | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | eh eh bin | house a talk eh mine and faid eh husbun and wen and eh git and tired long um and gwine kill um and day de closet and garret ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | closet | ooman | garret conj | 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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