Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 89
Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf say him dist bin buy er fine ridin horse, an him want um fuh come an tek er ride long um.
Who acts: Buh, eh sen, dist bin, um · What happens: ride, ter, say, buy, want, come · To what, where: de horse, horse, fine ridin horse, um, tek er, long 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 (Buh, eh sen, dist bin, 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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 horse | compound |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obj |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ter | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sen | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sen | amod |
| 12 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ter | nsubj |
| 13 | wud | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ter | aux |
| 14 | ter | ter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ride | conj |
| 15 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 say | nsubj |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Buh | flat |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ter | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | dist | dist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | compound |
| 20 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | nsubj |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | parataxis |
| 22 | er | er | ADV | _ | 23 fine | advmod |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horse | amod |
| 24 | ridin | ridin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horse | compound |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 want | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 want | det |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 want | nsubj |
| 29 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 say | parataxis |
| 30 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 want | obj |
| 31 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 32 come | discourse |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 want | xcomp |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 er | det |
| 34 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 er | compound |
| 35 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obj |
| 36 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 want | conj |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 um | amod |
| 38 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ride | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | Buh | de horse | ter him house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | ter | would | a eh sen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Buh | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | buy | present | dist bin | fine ridin horse | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | infinitive | Buh | um | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come not said to happen | infinitive | um not said here | a tek er | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location er=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ride | present | Buh not said here | long um | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
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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