Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 7
Buh Rabbit say: “Less we dribe um close up ter my house befo we kill um.”
Who acts: Buh, we · What happens: say, dribe, close up, kill · To what, where: um · 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, we), 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 | _ | 8 dribe | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Less | punct |
| 6 | Less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 dribe | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dribe | nsubj |
| 8 | dribe | dribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 9 | um | um | ADV | _ | 8 dribe | advmod |
| 10 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dribe | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 close | compound:prt |
| 12 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 15 | befo | befo | SCONJ | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 close | advcl |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Buh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dribe in a quote | present | we | less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | close up in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | ter my house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | present | we | um | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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