Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 87
Wid dat eh leff right befo Buh Wolf face.
To what, where: Wid
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 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | dat | dat | X | _ | 1 Wid | flat:foreign |
| 3 | eh | eh | X | _ | 1 Wid | flat:foreign |
| 4 | leff | leff | X | _ | 3 eh | goeswith |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 face | advmod |
| 6 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 7 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | compound |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 face | compound |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eh | flat |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wid | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/11/87/