Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 165
Soon as Buh Rabbit git outer yearin, Buh Pattridge whistle fuh him chillun.
What happens: whistle · To what, where: chillun, Buh
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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 whistle | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 yearin | case |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yearin | nsubj |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yearin | compound |
| 6 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 yearin | amod |
| 7 | yearin | yearin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soon | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Buh | punct |
| 9 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yearin | appos |
| 10 | Pattridge | Pattridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buh | flat |
| 11 | whistle | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 11 whistle | discourse |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whistle | obj |
| 14 | chillun | chillun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistle | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whistle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | present | chillun | Buh | soon property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary chillun=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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