Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 140
Buh Rabbit him walk up las, an eh yent gone berry close needer.
Who acts: you, eh yent · What happens: rabbit, walk up, go · To what, where: dem, las, berry close needer
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 (you, eh yent), 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 | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Rabbit | obj |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Rabbit | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 walk | compound:prt |
| 6 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walk | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yent | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 yent | det |
| 9 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 yent | amod |
| 10 | yent | yent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 las | appos |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 yent | acl |
| 12 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needer | compound |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 needer | amod |
| 14 | needer | needer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | imperative | you not said here | dem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk up | infinitive | you not said here | las | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme la=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | participle | a eh yent not said here | berry close needer | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location needer=Theme |
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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