Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 19
Den Buh Rabbit mek um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine come long de road, an eh show um good place fuh him fuh wuk eh plan fuh do dist es him bin do.
Who acts: um senserble wen, wuk, bin · What happens: come, do
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 (um senserble wen, wuk, bin), 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 | 5 um | compound |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wen | compound |
| 6 | senserble | senserble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wen | amod |
| 7 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 8 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 gwine | case |
| 9 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gwine | amod |
| 10 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gwine | compound |
| 11 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wen | nmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | de | de | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 18 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 show | amod |
| 19 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | compound |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 road | conj |
| 23 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 24 him | discourse |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod |
| 25 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 30 do | discourse |
| 26 | wuk | wuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 do | nsubj |
| 27 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fuh | amod |
| 28 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fuh | compound |
| 29 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wuk | conj |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | parataxis |
| 31 | dist | dist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 es | compound |
| 32 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bin | nmod:poss |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 es | nmod |
| 34 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | um senserble wen de Ole Man gwine | de road and a um good place um; long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | wuk and eh plan fuh | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | dist es um's bin | vn act-114-1 «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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