Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 7
De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um een eh waggin long side de pile er fish.
Who acts: Ole Man, eh liff · What happens: gree, do, rabbit up · To what, where: fuh, eh pit 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 (Ole Man, eh liff), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | compound |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Man | compound |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gree | nsubj |
| 4 | gree | gree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gree | obj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gree | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 Rabbit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rabbit | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 liff | det |
| 10 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 liff | amod |
| 11 | liff | liff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 12 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 liff | appos |
| 13 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 Rabbit | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 um | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 um | det |
| 17 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 um | amod |
| 18 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 um | compound |
| 19 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | obl |
| 20 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 um | flat |
| 21 | eh | eh | ADP | Typo=Yes | 28 fish | case |
| 22 | waggin | waggin | X | _ | 21 eh | goeswith |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 de | compound |
| 25 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pile | compound |
| 26 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 er | compound |
| 27 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fish | compound |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 um | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gree | infinitive | Ole Man | fuh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Ole Man not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rabbit up | present | a eh liff | a eh pit um eh er fish | vn berry-13.7 «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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