Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
Buh Wolf ansur: “Duh me, Buh Wolf.”
To what, where: me
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 | 2 Wolf | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ansur | compound |
| 3 | ansur | ansur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 me | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 6 | Duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 7 me | discourse |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wolf | punct |
| 9 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wolf | compound |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 me | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wolf | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | 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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