Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 16
Buh Rabbit say: “How you kin ax me sich er question, wen me bin see er whole gang er Pattridge dis gone from yuh?
Who acts: Buh, you, er · What happens: say, ax, bin, see, go, question · To what, where: Buh, gang er, Pattridge dis · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, you, 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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 ax | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ax | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ax | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ax | nsubj |
| 8 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ax | aux |
| 9 | ax | ax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ax | obj |
| 11 | sich | sich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ax | obj |
| 12 | er | er | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 question | nmod:poss |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ax | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wen | punct |
| 15 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 question | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 question | iobj |
| 17 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ax | conj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bin | xcomp |
| 19 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 er | advmod |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gang | amod |
| 21 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | compound |
| 22 | er | er | X | _ | 18 see | obj |
| 23 | Pattridge | Pattridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 dis | compound |
| 24 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | flat |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dis | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 yuh | case |
| 27 | yuh | yuh | INTJ | _ | 25 gone | discourse |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Buh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ax in a quote | you | Buh | sich obj; er's question me and wen obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bin in a quote | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | gang er | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer er=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | participle | Pattridge dis not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | question in a quote | er | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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