Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 29
Buh Rabbit play an sing, an pick eh chance, an wen Buh Alligatur duh shet eh yeye an open eh mout fuh laugh, eh tek eh fiddle bow an, all ob er sutten, eh knock one er Buh Alligatur yeye teet outer eh head.
Who acts: Rabbit, shet eh · What happens: play, bow, knock · To what, where: sing, an, one er
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 (Rabbit, shet eh), 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 | _ | 3 play | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 play | nsubj |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sing | det |
| 5 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chance | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chance | det |
| 8 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chance | compound |
| 9 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chance | compound |
| 10 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wen | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wen | det |
| 13 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eh | nsubj |
| 14 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wen | appos |
| 15 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Buh | flat |
| 16 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 18 eh | discourse |
| 17 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eh | compound |
| 18 | eh | eh | X | _ | 31 bow | nsubj |
| 19 | yeye | yeye | X | _ | 18 eh | goeswith |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mout | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mout | amod |
| 22 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mout | compound |
| 23 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eh | flat |
| 24 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 laugh | amod |
| 25 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mout | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eh | punct |
| 27 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 30 fiddle | discourse |
| 28 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fiddle | compound |
| 29 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fiddle | amod |
| 30 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eh | flat |
| 31 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chance | parataxis |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bow | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ob | punct |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 ob | det |
| 35 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chance | conj |
| 36 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 sutten | advmod |
| 37 | sutten | sutten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ob | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 knock | punct |
| 39 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 40 knock | discourse |
| 40 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 play | conj |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 er | nummod |
| 42 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 knock | obj |
| 43 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 er | appos |
| 44 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Buh | flat |
| 45 | yeye | yeye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 teet | compound |
| 46 | teet | teet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Buh | appos |
| 47 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 head | amod |
| 48 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 head | compound |
| 49 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 teet | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | infinitive | Rabbit | a sing | a pick eh chance and all ob parataxis | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme | |||
| 2 | bow | present | shet eh a wen | an | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Topic | ||||
| 3 | knock | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | one er | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent er=Patient |
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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