Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 102
Soon es dem pass tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit, him gedder de range in eh han, an eh slap spur to Buh Wolf.
Who acts: Soon es, Buh Rabbit · What happens: pass, range · To what, where: tru big gate, eh han
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soon es, Buh Rabbit), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 es | amod |
| 2 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tru | tru | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 gate | amod |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 tru | flat |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gate | amod |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rabbit | punct |
| 10 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 range | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 him | punct |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Rabbit | conj |
| 14 | gedder | gedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 range | compound |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gedder | flat |
| 16 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 han | case |
| 18 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 han | amod |
| 19 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 range | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spur | punct |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spur | det |
| 22 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spur | amod |
| 23 | slap | slap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spur | compound |
| 24 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 range | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Wolf | case |
| 26 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wolf | compound |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spur | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | Soon es | tru big gate | dem nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | range | Buh Rabbit dem | eh han | a eh slap spur to Buh Wolf conj | 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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