Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 147
Buh Pattridge and Buh Rabbit jine compny fuh kill cow.
To what, where: compny kill cow
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: 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 | 10 cow | nsubj |
| 2 | Pattridge | Pattridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Buh | cc |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | conj |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buh | flat |
| 6 | jine | jine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 compny | amod |
| 7 | compny | compny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cow | compound |
| 8 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | compound |
| 9 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cow | compound |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cow | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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