Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 159
Buh Rabbit bin der watch um all de time.
What happens: watch · To what, where: um
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 | Buh | buh | INTJ | _ | 4 der | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | compound |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 der | nmod:desc |
| 4 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 der | parataxis |
| 6 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watch | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 time | compound |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 der | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | um | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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