Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
All ob a sutten, de Crab tek eh tarruh claw, an eh fastne Buh Tukrey Buzzud roun eh neck.
To what, where: eh tarruh claw
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 ob | det |
| 2 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sutten | det |
| 4 | sutten | sutten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 de | punct |
| 6 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sutten | conj |
| 7 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | nsubj |
| 8 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | nsubj |
| 9 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | compound |
| 10 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | compound |
| 11 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fastne | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fastne | det |
| 14 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fastne | amod |
| 15 | fastne | fastne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claw | conj |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fastne | appos |
| 17 | Tukrey | Tukrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Buh | flat |
| 18 | Buzzud | Buzzud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Buh | flat |
| 19 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Buh | list |
| 20 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 neck | amod |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roun | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 claw | 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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