Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 106
Wen dem duh nigh de house Buh Rabbit holler ter de Gal: “Wuh me bin tell you?
What happens: tell · To what, where: you, holler ter · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 2 dem | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | nsubj |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 10 ter | discourse |
| 4 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 10 ter | advmod |
| 5 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | nsubj |
| 7 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 house | appos |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buh | flat |
| 9 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | de | de | ADP | _ | 12 Gal | case |
| 12 | Gal | Gal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 15 | Wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 16 me | discourse |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ter | conj |
| 17 | bin | bin | PART | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 me | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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