Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
But ebry time de Sun done git up befo Buh Hawk ketch de place way de Sun sleep.
What happens: do up · To what, where: 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 done | cc |
| 2 | ebry | ebry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 de | flat |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 done | compound:prt |
| 9 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 12 ketch | case |
| 10 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawk | compound |
| 11 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ketch | compound |
| 12 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 way | advmod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | compound |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ketch | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | de | de | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sleep | compound |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do up | participle | git | time | befo Hawk ketch place way de Sun sleep | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality |
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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