Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 118
At lenk Buh Wolf gie out say him berry sick.
What happens: gie out, say, berry · To what, where: lenk, Buh · 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 10. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 lenk | case |
| 2 | lenk | lenk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gie | obl |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lenk | appos |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buh | flat |
| 5 | gie | gie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 gie | compound:prt |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gie | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | berry | berry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | xcomp |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 berry | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gie out | present | lenk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Buh | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | berry | infinitive | sick property | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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