Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 273
Must be some edder rabbit.
What happens: be · To what, where: edder rabbit
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 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rabbit | aux |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rabbit | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 rabbit | det |
| 4 | edder | edd | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 rabbit | amod |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | some edder rabbit | 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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