Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 117
Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehself een one gall-berry ticket, way nobody kin shum, an cock eh yez fuh notus wuh gwine happne.
Who acts: you, een, nobody · What happens: rabbit, hide, ticket, kin · To what, where: ehself, shum
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 (you, een, nobody), 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Rabbit | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
| 5 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 glad | discourse |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 glad | advmod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 8 | eh | eh | ADP | _ | 12 hop | case |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hop | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hop | amod |
| 12 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glad | obl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 side | nummod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hide | obl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hide | det |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 18 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hide | obj |
| 19 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ticket | nsubj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ticket | nummod |
| 21 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ticket | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 gall | punct |
| 23 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ticket | compound |
| 24 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hide | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 way | punct |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ticket | appos |
| 27 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 kin | nsubj |
| 28 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | shum | shum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kin | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eh | punct |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 eh | det |
| 32 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eh | compound |
| 33 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ticket | appos |
| 34 | yez | yez | X | _ | 36 notus | compound |
| 35 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 notus | amod |
| 36 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eh | appos |
| 37 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 36 notus | discourse |
| 38 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 happne | amod |
| 39 | happne | happne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 notus | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | imperative | you not said here | now | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | ehself | off one side | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ticket | een | way appos; a cock eh appos | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kin | present | nobody | shum | tree rules |
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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