Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 139
Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een; an wen de tide duh gwine back der ribber, de gate shet an stop all de fish wuh day een de creek.
Who acts: Wen tide, de tide, de gate shet · What happens: come, open, gwine, stop · To what, where: een creek, der ribber, de fish
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen tide, de tide, de gate shet), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tide | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Wen | flat:foreign |
| 3 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 5 come | discourse |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | een | een | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 creek | amod |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 een | flat |
| 8 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gate | punct |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gate | amod |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creek | conj |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 14 | leh | leh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fish | compound |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fish | compound |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 open | conj |
| 17 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fish | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gwine | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tide | det |
| 20 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 de | compound |
| 21 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tide | compound |
| 22 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gwine | nsubj |
| 23 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 24 gwine | discourse |
| 24 | gwine | gwine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 der | advmod |
| 26 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 ribber | amod |
| 27 | ribber | ribber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gwine | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shet | punct |
| 29 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shet | amod |
| 30 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shet | compound |
| 31 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ribber | appos |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stop | det |
| 33 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 shet | acl:relcl |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 de | advmod |
| 35 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fish | amod |
| 36 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 stop | obj |
| 37 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 41 creek | discourse |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 creek | compound |
| 39 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 day | flat |
| 40 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 creek | compound |
| 41 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gwine | parataxis |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Wen tide | een creek and de gate | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | a leh de fish conj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gwine | infinitive | a de tide | der ribber | day de creek parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stop | present | de gate shet not said here | de fish | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fish=Eventuality |
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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