Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 115
Buh Wolf, him binner inwite ter two dinner de same day an de same time: one gen by Cooter Bay, an de tarruh by John Bay.
To what, where: Buh ter dinner
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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dinner | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 binner | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 binner | compound |
| 5 | binner | binner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 6 | inwite | inwite | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Buh | dep |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dinner | compound |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ter | flat |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 dinner | flat:foreign |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dinner | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 14 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 gen | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 gen | nummod |
| 19 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | appos |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Bay | case |
| 21 | Cooter | Cooter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bay | compound |
| 22 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gen | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tarruh | punct |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tarruh | det |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 tarruh | compound |
| 26 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gen | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 John | case |
| 28 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tarruh | nmod |
| 29 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 John | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dinner | 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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