Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 155
Eh up an tell Buh Rabbit: “Dat cow meat no good.
To what, where: Buh 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: 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Eh | compound:prt |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tell | det |
| 4 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | compound |
| 6 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 meat | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 meat | punct |
| 9 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meat | det |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meat | compound |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rabbit | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 good | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meat | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rabbit | 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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