Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 281
Lemme slip to Buh Wolf spring an git some water fuh cool um.”
What happens: slip · To what, where: git
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 | Lemme | lemme | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 slip | aux |
| 2 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | compound |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spring | compound |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slip | obl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 git | det |
| 8 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slip | obj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slip | obl |
| 11 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 12 cool | discourse |
| 12 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 um | amod |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slip | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slip | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | a git | spring | some water obl; cool um obl | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent git=Patient |
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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