Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 263
Buh Rabbit, him too lazy an too scheemy fuh wuk fuh 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: 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 | _ | 6 lazy | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lazy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 him | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Rabbit | conj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 lazy | advmod |
| 6 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scheemy | det |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 scheemy | advmod |
| 9 | scheemy | scheemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lazy | conj |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wuk | amod |
| 11 | wuk | wuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scheemy | conj |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 scheemy | discourse |
| 13 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 fuh | vocative |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lazy | punct |
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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