Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
Dat ease Buh Alligatur, an eh tell Buh Mash-hen heap er tenky.
To what, where: heap er
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 | Dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ease | det |
| 2 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Buh | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ease | appos |
| 4 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buh | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tell | det |
| 7 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tell | amod |
| 8 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ease | conj |
| 9 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heap | compound |
| 10 | Mash | Mash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buh | flat |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hen | punct |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heap | compound |
| 13 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | compound |
| 14 | er | er | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 15 | tenky | tenky | X | _ | 14 er | goeswith |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/3/14/