Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 45
Buh Wolf wait tel Buh Rabbit sorter come teh, an den eh help um ter him house an tell um goodbye.
Who acts: Buh, Buh Rabbit sorter, den eh · What happens: wait, come, help, tell · To what, where: tel, um house, um goodbye · 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 (Buh, Buh Rabbit sorter, den 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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tel | tel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | obj |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sorter | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorter | compound |
| 7 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | parataxis |
| 9 | teh | teh | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eh | det |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eh | compound |
| 13 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nsubj |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | parataxis |
| 15 | um | um | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 house | amod |
| 16 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 um | nmod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | obj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tell | det |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | conj |
| 21 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 goodbye | compound |
| 22 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Buh | tel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | Buh Rabbit sorter | teh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a den eh | um house | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | a den eh not said here | um goodbye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Recipient |
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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