Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 98
Buh Goat answer: “Yes, you yiz bin mek up you mine fuh kill we.
Who acts: yiz mek · What happens: kill · To what, where: we, Goat answer
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 (yiz mek), 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 | _ | 3 answer | discourse |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answer | compound |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answer | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 mek | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mek | nsubj |
| 9 | yiz | yiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mek | compound |
| 10 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 yiz | flat |
| 11 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 mek | compound:prt |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 mine | nsubj |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mek | nmod |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kill | amod |
| 16 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answer | conj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | yiz mek you mine | we | 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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