Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 140
Buh Rabbit duh set on eh back an duh spur um, an duh look dess as happy an content as eh kin be.
Who acts: Rabbit, you · What happens: set back, look, be · To what, where: duh spur um, eh, Rabbit
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, you), 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 | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 4 set | discourse |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Rabbit | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 eh | case |
| 6 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 um | det |
| 9 | duh | duh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 um | amod |
| 10 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 14 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 15 look | discourse |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | dess | dess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 happy | case |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 content | det |
| 20 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 kin | case |
| 22 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kin | amod |
| 23 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 24 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set back | participle | Rabbit not said here | a duh spur um | eh | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme on eh=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | Rabbit | as happy; as eh kin; dess obj; a content obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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