Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 81
Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole!
To what, where: arter dat wen
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: 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 | _ | 8 wen | discourse |
| 2 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wen | nsubj |
| 6 | arter | art | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 wen | amod |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wen | compound |
| 8 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | lo | lo | ADP | _ | 11 behole | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 behole | det |
| 11 | behole | behole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wen | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 wen | 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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