Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 181
Buh Rabbit, him duh tan off duh watch an duh half kill isself wid laugh.
Who acts: RABBIT · What happens: tan off, watch, kill · To what, where: duh half, isself
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: who acts (RABBIT), 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 | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tan | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tan | nsubj |
| 5 | duh | duh | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tan | aux |
| 6 | tan | tan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 tan | compound:prt |
| 8 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 9 watch | discourse |
| 9 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tan | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 half | det |
| 11 | duh | duh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 half | amod |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 watch | obj |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 laugh | amod |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tan off | RABBIT | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | RABBIT not said here | a duh half | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | present | Rabbit | isself | wid laugh obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus isself=Experiencer laugh=Result |
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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