Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 63
Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fetch een eh pocket four big nail wuh day on de mantlepiece een de Debble room, an dem will help um fuh git way.
Who acts: Mo, de, mus, dem · What happens: tell, come, fetch, help, um · To what, where: um, fuh ride, een eh pocket, de mantlepiece, fuh git way · 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 (Mo, de, mus, dem), 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 | Mo | Mo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | na | na | X | _ | 3 dat | compound |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mo | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mo | punct |
| 5 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 6 tell | discourse |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 come | nsubj |
| 10 | nex | nex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eh | amod |
| 11 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wen | compound |
| 12 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eh | compound |
| 13 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | advcl |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ride | amod |
| 16 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fetch | punct |
| 18 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 20 fetch | discourse |
| 19 | mus | mu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fetch | nsubj |
| 20 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | parataxis |
| 21 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pocket | nummod |
| 22 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pocket | compound |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obj | ||
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pocket | flat |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nail | amod |
| 26 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pocket | conj |
| 27 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 28 day | discourse |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 mantlepiece | case |
| 30 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mantlepiece | amod |
| 31 | mantlepiece | mantlepiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obl |
| 32 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 mantlepiece | flat |
| 33 | de | de | ADP | _ | 35 room | case |
| 34 | Debble | Debble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 room | compound |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mantlepiece | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 help | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 dem | det |
| 38 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 help | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 help | aux |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fetch | conj |
| 41 | um | um | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 help | xcomp |
| 42 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 way | amod |
| 43 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 way | compound |
| 44 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 um | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Mo | um | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | present | de | fuh ride | nex wen eh nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ride=Theme | |||
| 3 | fetch | present | mus | een eh pocket and big nail | de mantlepiece de Debble room | day | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme on mantlepiece=Source | ||
| 4 | help | future | a dem | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | um | infinitive | a dem not said here | fuh git way | 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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