Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 339
Eh hail Buh Rabbit: “Hey, Budder! wuh de trouble?
To what, where: Eh hail
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | compound |
| 2 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Budder | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Budder | punct |
| 7 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 9 Budder | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hey | punct |
| 9 | Budder | budder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Budder | punct |
| 11 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 9 Budder | discourse |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 trouble | compound |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Budder | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hail | 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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