Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 34
Buh Deer dat skaid eh dunno wuffer do.
What happens: skai, do · To what, where: Buh
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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 skaid | nsubj |
| 2 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | dat | dat | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skaid | aux:pass |
| 4 | skaid | skai | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | eh | eh | ADP | _ | 7 wuffer | case |
| 6 | dunno | dunno | X | _ | 7 wuffer | compound |
| 7 | wuffer | wuffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 skaid | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skaid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skai | past · passive | Buh | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | eh dunno wuffer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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