Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 53
Buh Wolf leff de Gal an gone straight ter Buh Rabbit house.
What happens: go · 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 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | leff | leff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 4 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 5 | Gal | Gal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | csubj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 house | advmod |
| 9 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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