Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 27
Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an eh leddown close by Buh Rabbit, so him kin ketch all wuh Buh Rabbit der play an der sing.
Who acts: bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit · What happens: crawl, leddown, ketch, play · To what, where: outer de mash grass, eh, der sing, Buh yeddy um
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 (bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit), 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 | 4 um | compound |
| 2 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 um | compound |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 crawl | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eh | det |
| 7 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eh | compound |
| 8 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawl | nsubj |
| 9 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 um | conj |
| 10 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grass | amod |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grass | amod |
| 12 | mash | mash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grass | compound |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawl | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eh | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 eh | det |
| 16 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grass | appos |
| 17 | leddown | leddown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eh | acl |
| 18 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 leddown | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Buh | case |
| 20 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 leddown | obl |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Buh | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ketch | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 ketch | advmod |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ketch | nsubj |
| 25 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ketch | amod |
| 26 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawl | obl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 Rabbit | det |
| 28 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 30 Rabbit | discourse |
| 29 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Rabbit | compound |
| 30 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 play | nsubj |
| 31 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 Rabbit | amod |
| 32 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ketch | acl:relcl |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sing | det |
| 34 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 sing | amod |
| 35 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 play | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 um | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present | a bimeby eh | outer de mash grass | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location grass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leddown | participle | a eh not said here | by Buh; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ketch | EH | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | all Buh Rabbit | a der sing | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=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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