Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 145
Him an Buh Rooster bin good fren.
To what, where: bin good fren
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 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fren | nsubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fren | det |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rooster | compound |
| 4 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | compound |
| 5 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fren | compound |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fren | amod |
| 7 | fren | fren | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fren | 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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