Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 120
L. BUH ROCCOON AN BUH POSSUM 136
To what, where: L.
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. 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 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 1 L. | discourse |
| 3 | ROCCOON | ROCCOON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 L. | flat |
| 4 | AN | an | X | _ | 1 L. | parataxis |
| 5 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 4 AN | discourse |
| 6 | POSSUM | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 AN | flat |
| 7 | 136 | 136 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 POSSUM | flat |
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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