Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
Eh farruh-een-law an eh bredder-een-law hab gun een dem han.
To what, where: een law
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 | Eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 6 law | discourse |
| 2 | farruh | farruh | INTJ | _ | 1 Eh | discourse |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eh | punct |
| 4 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 law | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 een | punct |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gun | det |
| 8 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gun | amod |
| 9 | bredder | bredder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 een | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bredder | punct |
| 11 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 law | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 een | punct |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hab | compound |
| 14 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gun | compound |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 law | nmod |
| 16 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 gun | flat |
| 17 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 han | compound |
| 18 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 een | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 law | 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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