Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 305
Buh Rabbit try fuh pull eh hand back, an eh say: “Wuh you hole me han fuh?
Who acts: Rabbit, eh, you · What happens: try, pull, hand back, say, hole · To what, where: eh · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Rabbit, eh, you), 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 try | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 5 pull | discourse |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 6 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 hand | discourse |
| 7 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 hand | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eh | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 han | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 han | punct |
| 15 | Wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 17 hole | discourse |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hole | nsubj |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 han | compound |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hole | nmod |
| 19 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | ccomp |
| 20 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 19 han | discourse |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | infinitive | Rabbit | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull not said to happen | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hand back not said to happen | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | infinitive | a eh | hole han ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hole in a quote | you | a eh = eh | 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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