Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
Er Buckra man bin berry lub fuh hunt deer.
What happens: hunt · To what, where: deer, bin berry lub
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 | Er | er | INTJ | _ | 6 lub | discourse |
| 2 | Buckra | Buckra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lub | nsubj |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lub | nsubj |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lub | compound |
| 5 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lub | compound |
| 6 | lub | lub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 8 hunt | discourse |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 lub | parataxis |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hunt | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | infinitive | deer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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