Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 113
Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an ontie um.
Who acts: Wid, loose de bag · What happens: tell, offer · To what, where: Buh Wolf, de tree lim · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wid, loose de bag), 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 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | dat | dat | X | _ | 1 Wid | flat:foreign |
| 3 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wolf | compound |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 8 loose | discourse |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bag | amod |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bag | compound |
| 10 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offer | nsubj |
| 11 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 lim | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lim | compound |
| 14 | lim | lim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offer | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 um | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 um | det |
| 17 | ontie | ontie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 um | amod |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lim | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Wid | Buh Wolf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | offer | present | loose de bag | de tree lim | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent lim=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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