Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 327
Den Buh Rabbit butt de Tar Baby een eh face.
To what, where: Den Rabbit butt
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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 butt | compound |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 butt | compound |
| 4 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | ADP | _ | 7 Baby | case |
| 6 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Baby | compound |
| 7 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 butt | nmod |
| 8 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Baby | list |
| 9 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 butt | 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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