Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 85
Den Buh Wolf an eh wife biggin fuh quarrel an fight caze Buh Wolf skaid Buh Goat an eh wife an lem git way.
Who acts: Den, fight caze · What happens: quarrel, skai · To what, where: Buh Goat
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 (Den, fight caze), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quarrel | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 biggin | det |
| 5 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 biggin | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 biggin | compound |
| 7 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | nsubj |
| 8 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 quarrel | discourse |
| 9 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 caze | det |
| 11 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caze | compound |
| 12 | caze | caze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skaid | nsubj |
| 13 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 skaid | nsubj |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buh | flat |
| 15 | skaid | skai | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quarrel | ccomp |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Goat | compound |
| 17 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 skaid | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 19 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | compound |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skaid | obl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 22 | lem | lem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 git | compound |
| 23 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 way | compound |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quarrel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | infinitive | Den a eh wife biggin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skai | past | a fight caze | Buh Goat | a eh wife a git way obl; Buh nsubj | tree rules |
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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