Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 51
Arter dat time wen Buh Rabbit bin play dat trick on Buh Wolf an ride um up ter de Gal house wuh dem all two bin er cote, Buh Wolf berry bex long Buh Rabbit, an eh wan ketch um fuh gie um good lickin.
Who acts: Buh, dem, eh wan ketch um · What happens: bin up, cote, rabbit, gie · To what, where: play dat trick, Buh Wolf, um
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, dem, eh wan ketch um), 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 | Arter | Arter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wen | compound |
| 4 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | nsubj |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | flat |
| 7 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | compound |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | compound |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Wolf | case |
| 12 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wolf | compound |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | nmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 um | det |
| 15 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 um | compound |
| 16 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 bin | compound:prt |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | parataxis |
| 19 | de | de | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | Gal | Gal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 house | compound |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | nmod |
| 22 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 28 cote | discourse |
| 23 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cote | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 two | advmod |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bin | nummod |
| 26 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cote | compound |
| 27 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 cote | amod |
| 28 | cote | cote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ter | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Rabbit | punct |
| 30 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 31 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Buh | flat |
| 32 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bex | compound |
| 33 | bex | bex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Rabbit | amod |
| 35 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Rabbit | compound |
| 36 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cote | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 um | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 um | det |
| 39 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 um | amod |
| 40 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 um | amod |
| 41 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 um | compound |
| 42 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cote | appos |
| 43 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 44 gie | discourse |
| 44 | gie | gie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 um | acl |
| 45 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gie | obj |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 lickin | amod |
| 47 | lickin | lickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 um | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin up | present | Buh Arter time wen | play dat trick | Buh Wolf | a ride um obj; ter de Gal house and bin er cote and long Buh Rabbit parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cote | dem | a eh wan ketch um appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rabbit | Buh | berry bex nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gie | infinitive | a eh wan ketch um not said here | um and good lickin | tree rules |
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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