Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 241
Befo you kin tun roun Buh Deer done gone out uh sight, an lef Buh Cooter in de middle er de road duh laugh to isself.
Who acts: Befo, road · What happens: go out, laugh · To what, where: sight, isself
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 (Befo, road), 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 | Befo | Befo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Befo | flat |
| 3 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roun | amod |
| 4 | tun | tun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roun | compound |
| 5 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Befo | list |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Befo | list |
| 7 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buh | flat |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 gone | compound:prt |
| 11 | uh | uh | INTJ | _ | 12 sight | discourse |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cooter | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lef | det |
| 15 | lef | lef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Cooter | compound |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lef | appos |
| 17 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 er | case |
| 19 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 er | compound |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 er | compound |
| 21 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Cooter | nmod |
| 22 | de | de | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 er | nmod |
| 24 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 25 laugh | discourse |
| 25 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 road | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 isself | case |
| 27 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 laugh | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · do-support | Befo kin tun roun Buh | sight | lef Cooter in de middle er de road parataxis | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | laugh | infinitive | road not said here | isself | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to isself=Recipient |
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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