Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
Den eh quire ob Buh Fowl-hawk how him duh git long dis yer tight time.
To what, where: Buh
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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ob | compound |
| 2 | eh | eh | PROPN | _ | 1 Den | list |
| 3 | quire | quire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ob | compound |
| 4 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hawk | punct |
| 8 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | appos |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 him | advmod |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hawk | nmod |
| 11 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 14 dis | discourse |
| 12 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dis | compound |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dis | amod |
| 14 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 him | conj |
| 15 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 time | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dis | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Buh | 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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