Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 72
Buh Fox bin er watch um, an befo Buh Squirle shum, eh slip up an eh graff um.
Who acts: Buh Fox bin, Buh shum · What happens: watch, slip up · To what, where: um, eh graff um, Buh Fox bin
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 Fox bin, Buh shum), 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 bin | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | compound |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | er | er | PART | _ | 5 watch | mark |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bin | acl |
| 6 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shum | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shum | det |
| 9 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 10 Buh | case |
| 10 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shum | compound |
| 11 | Squirle | Squirle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Buh | flat |
| 12 | shum | shum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slip | punct |
| 14 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 15 slip | discourse |
| 15 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shum | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 slip | compound:prt |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 um | det |
| 18 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 um | amod |
| 19 | graff | graff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | compound |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slip | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | Buh Fox bin not said here | um | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slip up | infinitive | a Buh shum not said here | a eh graff um | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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