Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 31
Him bin know say Buh Fox gwine ketch de debble wen de Ole Man come pon topper um.
Who acts: Him bin · What happens: say, come · To what, where: Fox gwine ketch, topper um · 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 (Him 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 | Him | him | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bin | amod |
| 2 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ketch | compound |
| 7 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ketch | compound |
| 8 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 ketch | flat:foreign |
| 10 | debble | debble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wen | amod |
| 11 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ketch | conj |
| 12 | de | de | ADP | _ | 14 Man | case |
| 13 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Man | amod |
| 14 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wen | nmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 16 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 topper | compound |
| 17 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 um | compound |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Him bin | Fox gwine ketch and debble wen de Ole Man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | topper um | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=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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