Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 303
Buh Rabbit haul off an slap um side de head.
To what, where: Rabbit haul
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 | _ | 3 haul | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 haul | compound |
| 3 | haul | haul | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 6 | slap | slap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | compound |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 haul | nmod |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 head | compound |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 haul | 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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