Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 245
At de nex mile pose day was Buh Cooter a crawlin along.
What happens: be · To what, where: Buh Cooter
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 day | nsubj |
| 3 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nsubj |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | pose | pose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Cooter | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Cooter | cop |
| 8 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cooter | compound |
| 9 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crawlin | det |
| 11 | crawlin | crawlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Cooter | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 crawlin | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cooter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Buh Cooter and a crawlin | day | a crawlin 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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