Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 212
Buh Tukrey Buzzud, him yent hab no sense no how.
To what, where: yent hab
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 | 7 hab | nsubj |
| 2 | Tukrey | Tukrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | Buzzud | Buzzud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 him | punct |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Buh | appos |
| 6 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hab | amod |
| 7 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 sense | det |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hab | appos |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 how | det |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sense | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hab | 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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