Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 75
Wen Buh Squirle fine out dat Buh Fox yent bin gwine pity um an tun um loose, but dat eh fix fuh kill um an eat um, Buh Squirle say teh Buh Fox: “Enty you know say nobody oughter eat eh bittle befo eh say grace ober um?”
Who acts: Wen, eh fix fuh, Buh, you, Buh Fox, nobody oughter · What happens: fine out, kill, eat, say, know · To what, where: yent bin, um, grace ober 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 (Wen, eh fix fuh, Buh, you), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 3 | Squirle | Squirle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 4 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 fine | compound:prt |
| 6 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | obl |
| 9 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bin | amod |
| 10 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 um | amod |
| 12 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 um | compound |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 um | det |
| 15 | tun | tun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 um | compound |
| 16 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | obj |
| 17 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 4 fine | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kill | cc |
| 20 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fuh | det |
| 21 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fuh | amod |
| 22 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fuh | compound |
| 23 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 25 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 eat | det |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | conj |
| 28 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eat | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 30 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 say | nsubj |
| 31 | Squirle | Squirle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Buh | flat |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 33 | teh | teh | PUNCT | _ | 35 Fox | punct |
| 34 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Fox | compound |
| 35 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 say | nsubj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 Enty | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Enty | punct |
| 38 | Enty | enty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 Fox | appos |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 know | nsubj |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Enty | acl:relcl |
| 41 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 say | parataxis |
| 42 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 43 oughter | compound |
| 43 | oughter | oughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 eat | nsubj |
| 44 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 say | ccomp |
| 45 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 46 bittle | advmod |
| 46 | bittle | bittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 say | nsubj |
| 47 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 48 eh | case |
| 48 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bittle | obl |
| 49 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 eat | parataxis |
| 50 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 um | compound |
| 51 | ober | ober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 um | compound |
| 52 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 say | obj |
| 53 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 52 um | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine out | past | Wen | yent bin | dat Buh Fox; gwine pity um parataxis; a tun um obj; loose property | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient | |||
| 2 | kill | present | that eh fix fuh | um | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | that eh fix fuh not said here | um | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | present | Buh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Buh Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | eat in a quote | present | nobody oughter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | bittle befo eh | grace ober um | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
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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