Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 233
Buh Cooter, him call togedder him fren an tole um bout de bet an wen de race fur run.
Who acts: ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR, togedder fren, wen, de race fur · What happens: call, bet, fur, run · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR, togedder fren, wen, de race fur), 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 | _ | 5 call | discourse |
| 2 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | togedder | togedd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fren | amod |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 togedder | obj |
| 8 | fren | fren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bet | nsubj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bout | det |
| 10 | tole | tole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bout | compound |
| 12 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fren | nmod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 bout | flat:foreign |
| 14 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 call | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fur | det |
| 16 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fur | nsubj |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fur | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fur | compound |
| 19 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bet | obj |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fur | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | ALLIGATUR SLEEP FUR = fur | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bet | infinitive | togedder fren a um bout | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fur | wen | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | run | present | a de race fur not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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