Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 60
Buh Possum grin eh teet same lucker fool, an eh say, wen de dog come pon topper um, dem tickle him rib so bad long dem mout dat him bleege ter laugh; an so him furgit fuh fight.
Who acts: Buh, wen · What happens: grin, say, come, tickle, laugh · To what, where: teet same lucker fool, pon topper um, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Buh, wen), 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 | 3 grin | nsubj |
| 2 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | grin | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 3 grin | advmod |
| 5 | teet | teet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fool | amod |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fool | amod |
| 7 | lucker | lucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fool | compound |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grin | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eh | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eh | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fool | conj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grin | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wen | punct |
| 14 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 wen | flat:foreign |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 18 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | compound |
| 19 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | compound |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dem | punct |
| 22 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | conj |
| 23 | tickle | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grin | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tickle | obj |
| 25 | rib | rib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tickle | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 mout | advmod |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mout | amod |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mout | amod |
| 29 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mout | compound |
| 30 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rib | nmod |
| 31 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 mout | nmod |
| 33 | bleege | bleege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ter | compound |
| 34 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laugh | compound |
| 35 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 mout | parataxis |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 him | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 him | det |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 him | advmod |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grin | parataxis |
| 40 | furgit | furgit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fight | amod |
| 41 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fight | amod |
| 42 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 him | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | present | Buh | teet same lucker fool and a eh | dog parataxis | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Buh not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | wen | pon topper um and dem | dog nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | tickle | present | Buh not said here | dog | rib bad long dem mout dat dog obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer rib=Result | |||
| 5 | laugh | infinitive | bleege ter compound | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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