Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 144
HOW COME BUH ALLIGATUR NEBBER SLEEP FUR FROM DE RIBBER BANK.
To what, where: COME
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 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 COME | advmod |
| 2 | COME | come | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 7 FUR | discourse |
| 4 | ALLIGATUR | ALLIGATUR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 FUR | compound |
| 5 | NEBBER | nebber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 SLEEP | compound |
| 6 | SLEEP | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 FUR | compound |
| 7 | FUR | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 COME | flat |
| 8 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 11 BANK | case |
| 9 | DE | DE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 BANK | compound |
| 10 | RIBBER | RIBBER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 BANK | compound |
| 11 | BANK | BANK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 COME | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 COME | 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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