Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 76
Come out an tek you lick, er me gwine bun you up een dis tree.”
Who acts: you · What happens: come out, lick, er, gwine up · To what, where: tek, me, bun
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 (you), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tek | det |
| 4 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lick | nsubj |
| 6 | lick | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tek | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 er | punct |
| 8 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 er | obj |
| 10 | gwine | gwine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 er | xcomp |
| 11 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gwine | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 gwine | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gwine | compound:prt |
| 14 | een | een | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 15 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gwine | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | imperative | you not said here | a tek | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tek=Result | |||
| 2 | lick | present | you | a tek not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tek=Source | ||||
| 3 | er | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gwine up | infinitive | you not said here | bun | you obj; een dis tree obj | 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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