Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 133
Buh Wolf rale cut down case eh loss one dinner.
What happens: cut down · To what, where: cut case eh loss
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 | 3 rale | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | rale | rale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 loss | amod |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | compound |
| 7 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | compound |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dinner | nummod |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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