Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 12
Es de Ole Man retch eh big gate, eh look behine fuh see how Buh Rabbit duh mek out; an de fus ting eh know Buh Rabbit yent day een de waggin, an heap er him fish done missin.
Who acts: Es, Buh Rabbit, de, fus ting eh, waggin fish · What happens: retch, look, see, mek out, eh, know · To what, where: big gate, waggin fish, missin · 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: who acts (Es, Buh Rabbit, de, fus ting eh), 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 | Es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 retch | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | ADP | _ | 4 Man | case |
| 3 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Man | amod |
| 4 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 retch | obl |
| 5 | retch | retch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 5 retch | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gate | amod |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 retch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 11 look | discourse |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 retch | conj |
| 12 | behine | behine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 look | xcomp |
| 13 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 14 see | discourse |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 behine | xcomp |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 mek | advmod |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | compound |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mek | nsubj |
| 18 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 19 mek | discourse |
| 19 | mek | mek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 mek | compound:prt |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 eh | det |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 eh | nsubj |
| 24 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eh | amod |
| 25 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eh | compound |
| 26 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 retch | parataxis |
| 28 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Rabbit | compound |
| 29 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 day | compound |
| 30 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 waggin | compound |
| 32 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 day | flat |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 waggin | compound |
| 34 | waggin | waggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fish | compound |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 heap | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 heap | det |
| 37 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 waggin | conj |
| 38 | er | er | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 heap | nmod |
| 40 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 know | obj |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fish | acl |
| 42 | missin | missin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 done | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 retch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retch | infinitive | Es | big gate | de Ole Man | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Es not said here | behine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Es not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mek out | infinitive | Buh Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eh | de | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | know | present | a fus ting eh | waggin fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | do | participle | waggin fish not said here | missin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent missin=Eventuality |
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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