Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 131
Buh Wolf, him mek answer: “Me guine ter Cooter Bay fuh dine long um.”
What happens: dine · To what, where: long um, Buh mek answer
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 | 6 answer | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buh | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Buh | nmod |
| 5 | mek | mek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 guine | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 guine | punct |
| 9 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 guine | nsubj |
| 10 | guine | guine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | appos |
| 11 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 13 Bay | case |
| 12 | Cooter | Cooter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bay | compound |
| 13 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 guine | obl |
| 14 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 15 dine | discourse |
| 15 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 guine | conj |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 um | amod |
| 17 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dine | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine in a quote | infinitive | long um | 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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