Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
Buh Hawk tek de greement, an eh try berry hade fuh come pon topper de Sun in eh bed.
Who acts: Buh Hawk tek · What happens: hade, come · To what, where: pon topper, eh bed
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 Hawk tek), 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 | 3 tek | compound |
| 2 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tek | compound |
| 3 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hade | nsubj |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 greement | compound |
| 5 | greement | greement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tek | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 berry | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 berry | det |
| 8 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berry | amod |
| 9 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 berry | compound |
| 10 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tek | conj |
| 11 | hade | hade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 13 come | discourse |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hade | xcomp |
| 14 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 topper | compound |
| 15 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obj |
| 16 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 topper | appos |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 de | flat |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bed | amod |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hade | present | Buh Hawk tek and de greement and a eh try berry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Buh Hawk tek and de greement and a eh try berry not said here | pon topper | eh bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=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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