Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 269
Buh Wolf quire: “Enty you blan tek water outer me spring?”
To what, where: Wolf quire
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wolf | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quire | compound |
| 3 | quire | quire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 outer | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 outer | punct |
| 6 | Enty | Enty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 outer | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Enty | flat |
| 8 | blan | blan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 9 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | compound |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Enty | appos |
| 11 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quire | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 spring | compound |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 outer | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 quire | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quire | 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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