Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 105
Wen Buh Wolf fine out eh cant do nuttne, eh keep de abnue straight fur de house.
Who acts: Wen · What happens: fine out, do, keep · To what, where: nuttne, de abnue
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 (Wen), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 4 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 fine | compound:prt |
| 6 | eh | eh | ADP | _ | 7 cant | case |
| 7 | cant | cant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | obl |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | advcl |
| 9 | nuttne | nuttne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 12 keep | discourse |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fine | conj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 abnue | compound |
| 14 | abnue | abnue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 house | advmod |
| 16 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine out | past | Wen | eh cant | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Wen not said here | nuttne | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | Wen not said here | de abnue | fur de house obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abnue=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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