Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 75
Him no know, but Buh Wolf ketch sight er um outer de corner ob him yeye wen Buh Rabbit hop een de do an run back side er de room.
Who acts: sight er · What happens: hop, do, run back · To what, where: wen, side
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 (sight er), 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 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hop | obl |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 know | det |
| 3 | know | know | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Him | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hop | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hop | cc |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wolf | compound |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ketch | compound |
| 8 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | compound |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | compound |
| 10 | er | er | X | _ | 21 hop | nsubj |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | goeswith |
| 12 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ob | amod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ob | compound |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ob | compound |
| 15 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | flat |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ob | obj |
| 17 | yeye | yeye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wen | compound |
| 18 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ob | conj |
| 19 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wen | appos |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Buh | flat |
| 21 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hop | obj |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 een | flat |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hop | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 run | det |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 run | advmod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 run | obj |
| 29 | er | er | X | _ | 31 room | compound |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 room | compound |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | present | sight er um | wen | een obj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme een=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | do | present | sight er um not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run back | infinitive | sight er um not said here | side and er de room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory |
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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