Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 170
Buh Alligatur, eh day in de middle fas tersleep.
To what, where: Buh
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 4 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 5 day | discourse |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tersleep | case |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fas | amod |
| 8 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fas | amod |
| 9 | fas | fa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tersleep | compound |
| 10 | tersleep | tersleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buh | 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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