Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 15
An eh mek all eh quaintunce sensible er de big faber wuh Buh Mash-hen bin done ter um.
What happens: do · To what, where: Buh hen bin, sensible 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mek | det |
| 2 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mek | compound |
| 3 | mek | mek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 quaintunce | det |
| 5 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quaintunce | amod |
| 6 | quaintunce | quaintunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | nsubj |
| 7 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 er | amod |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 faber | compound |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faber | amod |
| 11 | faber | faber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | conj |
| 12 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 17 bin | discourse |
| 13 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bin | compound |
| 14 | Mash | Mash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buh | flat |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Buh | punct |
| 16 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bin | compound |
| 17 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faber | appos |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bin | acl |
| 19 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 20 um | case |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Buh hen bin not said here | ter um | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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