Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 88
Me yent done git um all offer me tel now.
What happens: do, offer · To what, where: Me yent
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 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 yent | compound |
| 2 | yent | yent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obl |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 um | amod |
| 4 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yent | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 offer | advmod |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 offer | obj |
| 9 | tel | tel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 offer | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present | Me yent done git um | now | me obj; tel obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal tel=Theme |
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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