Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 224
HOW BUH COOTER[1] FOOL BUH DEER.
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 | root | root |
| 2 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 7 FOOL | discourse |
| 3 | COOTER | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 FOOL | compound |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 1 | punct |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 COOTER | flat |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 COOTER | punct |
| 7 | FOOL | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 HOW | nsubj |
| 8 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 9 DEER | discourse |
| 9 | DEER | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 FOOL | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 HOW | 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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