Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 242
Wen Buh Deer git to de fus mile pose, day was Buh Cooter day head er um.
Who acts: Wen Deer git · What happens: de, be · To what, where: fus mile pose, day head
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 (Wen Deer git), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 git | compound |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 3 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 git | compound |
| 4 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 de | mark |
| 6 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 git | acl |
| 7 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pose | amod |
| 8 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pose | compound |
| 9 | pose | pose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 de | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pose | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 head | cop |
| 13 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nsubj |
| 14 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | compound |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 um | advmod |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 head | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | to-infinitive | Wen Deer git not said here | fus mile pose and day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Wen Deer git | day head and um | Buh nsubj; um conj | tree rules |
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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