Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 99
Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him gwine teh Hebben, way him will hab nuttne fuh do cept joy ehself; way him will hab no corn fuh grine, no tetter fuh dig, no cotton fuh pick, no rice fuh hoe, an no chillun fuh mine.
Who acts: Soon es, Rabbit biggin, gwine, nuttne fuh, fuh · What happens: come, say, hab, do, tetter · To what, where: anigh um, um, way, cept joy, fuh dig · 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 (Soon es, Rabbit biggin, gwine, nuttne fuh), 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 | Soon | soon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 es | amod |
| 2 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wolf | compound |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 es | appos |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anigh | anigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 um | amod |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 biggin | punct |
| 9 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | compound |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 biggin | compound |
| 11 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | nsubj |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sing | amod |
| 13 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 biggin | conj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hab | nsubj |
| 17 | teh | teh | ADP | _ | 18 Hebben | case |
| 18 | Hebben | Hebben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gwine | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hab | obl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hab | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hab | aux |
| 23 | hab | hab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 say | ccomp |
| 24 | nuttne | nuttne | X | _ | 25 fuh | compound |
| 25 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hab | ccomp |
| 27 | cept | cept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 joy | compound |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 29 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 do | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 hab | punct |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hab | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hab | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hab | aux |
| 34 | hab | hab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | parataxis |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 corn | det |
| 36 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hab | obj |
| 37 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 grine | amod |
| 38 | grine | grine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 corn | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 tetter | punct |
| 40 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 tetter | discourse |
| 41 | tetter | tetter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hab | conj |
| 42 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dig | amod |
| 43 | dig | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tetter | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 pick | punct |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 pick | det |
| 46 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fuh | compound |
| 47 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pick | compound |
| 48 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dig | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 hoe | punct |
| 50 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 hoe | det |
| 51 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 hoe | compound |
| 52 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 hoe | amod |
| 53 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dig | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 chillun | punct |
| 55 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 chillun | det |
| 56 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 57 chillun | det |
| 57 | chillun | chillun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dig | conj |
| 58 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 59 mine | discourse |
| 59 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 chillun | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Soon es | anigh um | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Rabbit biggin and fuh sing | um | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hab | future | gwine teh Hebben | way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | nuttne fuh | cept joy | ehself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | hab | future | fuh | way | no corn and fuh grine obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | tetter | infinitive | fuh not said here | fuh dig and no fuh pick and no rice fuh hoe and a chillun mine | tree rules |
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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