Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 79
De fus ting eh fine out, Buh Goat an eh wife done gone.
What happens: do · To what, where: eh wife
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 | De | De | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 ting | compound |
| 2 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ting | amod |
| 3 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 5 fine | advmod |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 fine | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Buh | punct |
| 8 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | obl |
| 9 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buh | flat |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Buh | appos |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wife | acl |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 done | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | a eh wife not said here | gone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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