Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 160
Rattlesnake must a bin trike dat cow an pizen um.”
To what, where: dat 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 | Rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cow | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trike | compound |
| 5 | trike | trike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dat | compound |
| 6 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cow | compound |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 um | det |
| 9 | pizen | pizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 um | compound |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cow | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cow | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 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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