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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

compoundflatflatflatcompoundamodnsubjcaseamodcompoundnmodadvmodcaseoblpunctdetamodcompoundcompoundamodconjdiscoursenmoddiscoursensubjamodcompoundconjparataxiscompoundnmod:possnmodnsubjacl:relclpunctrootDenPROPNBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNmekPROPNumNOUNsenserbleADJwenNOUNdeADPOleADJManNOUNgwineNOUNcomeVERBlongADVdeADProadNOUN,PUNCTanDETehADJshowNOUNumNOUNgoodADJplaceNOUNfuhINTJhimPRONfuhINTJwukNOUNehADJplanNOUNfuhNOUNdoVERBdistNOUNesNOUNhimPRONbinNOUNdoVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing5 umcompound
2BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing1 Denflat
3RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Denflat
4mekMEKPROPNNumber=Sing1 Denflat
5umumNOUNNumber=Sing7 wencompound
6senserblesenserbleADJDegree=Pos7 wenamod
7wenwenNOUNNumber=Sing12 comensubj
8dedeADP_11 gwinecase
9OleoleADJDegree=Pos11 gwineamod
10ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 gwinecompound
11gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing7 wennmod
12comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13longlongADVDegree=Pos12 comeadvmod
14dedeADP_15 roadcase
15roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing12 comeobl
16,,PUNCT_22 placepunct
17anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 placedet
18ehehADJDegree=Pos19 showamod
19showshowNOUNNumber=Sing20 umcompound
20umumNOUNNumber=Sing22 placecompound
21goodgoodADJDegree=Pos22 placeamod
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing15 roadconj
23fuhfuhINTJ_24 himdiscourse
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 placenmod
25fuhfuhINTJ_30 dodiscourse
26wukwukNOUNNumber=Sing30 donsubj
27ehehADJDegree=Pos29 fuhamod
28planplanNOUNNumber=Sing29 fuhcompound
29fuhfuhNOUNNumber=Sing26 wukconj
30dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 placeparataxis
31distdistNOUNNumber=Sing32 escompound
32eseNOUNNumber=Plur34 binnmod:poss
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 esnmod
34binbinNOUNNumber=Sing35 donsubj
35dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 doacl:relcl
36..PUNCT_12 comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepresentum senserble wen de Ole Man gwinede road and a um good place um; long propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2dopresentwuk and eh plan fuhvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3dopresentdist es um's binvn 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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