Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 229
One day Buh Deer bin a laugh at Buh Cooter becase eh walk so slow.
What happens: bin, walk · To what, where: laugh, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buh | flat |
| 5 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Buh | case |
| 9 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | obl |
| 10 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 becase | compound |
| 11 | becase | becase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Buh | appos |
| 12 | eh | eh | PUNCT | _ | 11 becase | punct |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bin | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 slow | advmod |
| 15 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 walk | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | a laugh | day | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | Buh | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at buh=Trajectory |
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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