Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 33
Fus ting eh know, Buh Tiger biggin fuh crawl up de tree fuh ketch um.
Who acts: Fus ting eh, Buh biggin fuh · What happens: know, crawl up · To what, where: de tree · 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 (Fus ting eh, Buh biggin 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 | Fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eh | amod |
| 2 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eh | compound |
| 3 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fuh | compound |
| 7 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buh | flat |
| 8 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fuh | compound |
| 9 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crawl | nsubj |
| 10 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 crawl | compound:prt |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crawl | obj |
| 14 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 um | amod |
| 15 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 um | compound |
| 16 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Fus ting eh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | crawl up | present | Buh biggin fuh | de tree and fuh ketch um | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme |
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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