Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 3
BUH RABBIT, BUH PATTRIDGE, AN DE COW.
To what, where: RABBIT
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: 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 RABBIT | discourse |
| 2 | RABBIT | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 PATTRIDGE | punct |
| 4 | BUH | buh | INTJ | _ | 5 PATTRIDGE | discourse |
| 5 | PATTRIDGE | PATTRIDGE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 RABBIT | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 COW | punct |
| 7 | AN | AN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 COW | compound |
| 8 | DE | DE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 AN | flat |
| 9 | COW | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 PATTRIDGE | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 RABBIT | 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.
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