Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
Buh Alligatur hail um an tell um wuh happne, and mek um sensible how bad de claw duh hot um, an how eh yent hab de power fuh git um out, an eh bague um fuh pull de ting out wid eh bill.
Who acts: mek um, eh bague um · What happens: claw, pull out · To what, where: de ting, happne
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 (mek um, eh bague um), 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 | 4 um | compound |
| 2 | Alligatur | Alligatur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 um | compound |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happne | nsubj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 um | det |
| 6 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | compound |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happne | nsubj |
| 8 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 9 happne | discourse |
| 9 | happne | happne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 claw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 claw | cc |
| 12 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 um | compound |
| 13 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 claw | nsubj |
| 14 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 claw | amod |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 bad | advmod |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 claw | amod |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 claw | compound |
| 18 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happne | appos |
| 19 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 21 um | discourse |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 um | amod |
| 21 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 claw | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hab | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hab | det |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 eh | advmod |
| 25 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hab | amod |
| 26 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hab | amod |
| 27 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happne | conj |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 hab | flat |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hab | conj |
| 30 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 um | amod |
| 31 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 um | compound |
| 32 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hab | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 um | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pull | punct |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 um | det |
| 36 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 um | amod |
| 37 | bague | bague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 um | compound |
| 38 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pull | nsubj |
| 39 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 40 pull | discourse |
| 40 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happne | parataxis |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 ting | compound |
| 42 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pull | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 pull | compound:prt |
| 44 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 bill | amod |
| 45 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bill | compound |
| 46 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pull | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claw | mek um | hot um conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pull out | infinitive | a eh bague um | de ting | wid eh bill obj | tree rules |
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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