Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 159
Buh Owl, him berry bex case Buh Rooster broke eh wud, an he fall out wid Buh Rooster.
Who acts: Buh, Buh Rooster · What happens: berry, break, wu, fall out · To what, where: bex case, wid Buh Rooster
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: who acts (Buh, Buh Rooster), 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 | 5 berry | nsubj |
| 2 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 berry | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 berry | nsubj |
| 5 | berry | berry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bex | bex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 case | compound |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 berry | obj |
| 8 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rooster | compound |
| 9 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 berry | ccomp |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 12 wud | advmod |
| 12 | wud | wu | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 broke | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fall | det |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 berry | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 fall | compound:prt |
| 18 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Rooster | amod |
| 19 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Rooster | compound |
| 20 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 berry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | berry | present | Buh | bex case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Buh Rooster | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wu | participle | Buh Rooster not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall out | infinitive | Buh | wid Buh Rooster | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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