Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 58
Buh Goat berry faid tunder an lightnin an rain.
To what, where: berry faid tunder
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 | _ | 5 tunder | discourse |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 berry | compound |
| 3 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tunder | compound |
| 4 | faid | faid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tunder | amod |
| 5 | tunder | tunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lightnin | det |
| 7 | lightnin | lightnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tunder | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rain | det |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lightnin | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tunder | 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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