Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 168
De meat bin good, an Buh Pattridge only do dat fuh fool Buh Rabbit an git him share too.
Who acts: Buh Pattridge, bin · What happens: do, share · To what, where: dat, git
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 (Buh Pattridge, bin), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 meat | compound |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | compound |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Pattridge | det |
| 7 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pattridge | compound |
| 8 | Pattridge | Pattridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 11 | dat | dat | X | _ | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fool | amod |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fool | appos |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Buh | flat |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 git | det |
| 17 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fool | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 share | nsubj |
| 19 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 17 git | acl:relcl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 share | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a Buh Pattridge | dat | fuh fool and a git obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | share | present | bin | a git not said here | tree rules |
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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