Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 30
Befo eh fine out, Buh Rabbit done pick up de teet an gone.
What happens: do, pick up · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, de teet
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: 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 | Befo | Befo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 3 fine | advmod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fine | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rabbit | punct |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Rabbit | acl |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pick | compound:prt |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 teet | compound |
| 12 | teet | teet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gone | det |
| 14 | gone | gone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Buh Rabbit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | de teet | a gone obj | 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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