Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
Buh Alligatur blan chaw up crab, shell an all.
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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | blan | blan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chaw | amod |
| 4 | chaw | chaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 chaw | compound |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chaw | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shell | punct |
| 8 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 all | det |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 shell | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 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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