Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 23
Buh Fowl-hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud, dem bin a sail backwud and forrud in de element, duh look fuh see wuh dem kin pick up fur eat.
Who acts: Buh, dem kin, fur · What happens: bin, look, see, pick up, eat · To what, where: sail backwud, fur
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, dem kin, fur), 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 | 11 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hawk | punct |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Buzzud | det |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buzzud | compound |
| 7 | Tukrey | Tukrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buh | flat |
| 8 | Buzzud | Buzzud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | list |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dem | punct |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | conj |
| 11 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 backwud | det |
| 13 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 backwud | compound |
| 14 | backwud | backwud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bin | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forrud | cc |
| 16 | forrud | forrud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 backwud | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 element | case |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 element | amod |
| 19 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forrud | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 look | punct |
| 21 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 22 look | discourse |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 bin | parataxis |
| 23 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 24 see | discourse |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 look | conj |
| 25 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 27 kin | discourse |
| 26 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kin | compound |
| 27 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pick | nsubj |
| 28 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 look | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 pick | compound:prt |
| 30 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pick | obj |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fur | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | Buh a Buh Buzzud and dem | a sail backwud and forrud in de element | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent backwud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | pick up | present | dem kin | fur | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Topic | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | fur not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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