Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 24
I. HOW COME BUH ALLIGATUR NEBBER SLEEP FUR FROM DE RIBBER BANK 1
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 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 COME | nsubj |
| 2 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 COME | advmod |
| 3 | COME | come | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 8 FUR | discourse |
| 5 | ALLIGATUR | ALLIGATUR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 FUR | compound |
| 6 | NEBBER | nebber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 SLEEP | compound |
| 7 | SLEEP | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 FUR | compound |
| 8 | FUR | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 COME | flat |
| 9 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 12 BANK | case |
| 10 | DE | DE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 BANK | compound |
| 11 | RIBBER | ribber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 BANK | compound |
| 12 | BANK | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 COME | nmod |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 BANK | flat |
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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