Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
Stidder eh bin one chicken, eh tun out fuh bin er sharp-pinted stump; an befo Buh Fowl-hawk fine out de diffunce, an kin check eh speed, eh hit eh bres gin de stump an kill ehself.
Who acts: Stidder, befo hawk, eh bres · What happens: bin, tun out, pint, diffunce, hit, gin · To what, where: one chicken, fuh bin, kill
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 (Stidder, befo hawk, eh bres), 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 | Stidder | Stidder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | eh | eh | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bin | nsubj |
| 3 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 chicken | nummod |
| 5 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tun | punct |
| 7 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 8 tun | discourse |
| 8 | tun | tun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bin | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 tun | compound:prt |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bin | amod |
| 11 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tun | obj |
| 12 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 stump | advmod |
| 13 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stump | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sharp | punct |
| 15 | pinted | pint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stump | amod |
| 16 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tun | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 diffunce | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 befo | det |
| 19 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hawk | compound |
| 20 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 befo | appos |
| 21 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Buh | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Buh | punct |
| 23 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 diffunce | nsubj |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 diffunce | amod |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 fine | compound:prt |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 diffunce | compound |
| 27 | diffunce | diffunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 check | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 check | det |
| 30 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 check | amod |
| 31 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 diffunce | appos |
| 32 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 speed | amod |
| 33 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 check | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hit | punct |
| 35 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 36 hit | discourse |
| 36 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 diffunce | parataxis |
| 37 | eh | eh | X | _ | 38 bres | compound |
| 38 | bres | bre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gin | nsubj |
| 39 | gin | gin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hit | ccomp |
| 40 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 stump | dep |
| 41 | stump | stump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 gin | xcomp |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 kill | det |
| 43 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stump | obj |
| 44 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | appos |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | Stidder | one chicken | eh nsubj | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | |||
| 2 | tun out | infinitive | Stidder not said here | fuh bin | sharp pinted stump obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pint | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | diffunce | befo hawk | a kin check and eh speed appos | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hit | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | gin | present | eh bres | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | stump | infinitive | eh bres not said here | a kill | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kill=Experiencer |
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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