Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 107
Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun jis bin a git up, fuh see who guine win de bet.
Who acts: bet sun jis · What happens: bin up, see, win · To what, where: git, de bet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bet sun jis), 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 Rooster | discourse |
| 2 | Rooster | Rooster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bet | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tek | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tek | compound |
| 5 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bet | compound |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 tek | flat:foreign |
| 7 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jis | compound |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tun | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tun | det |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tun | compound |
| 11 | tun | tun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bet | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mornin | case |
| 13 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mornin | compound |
| 14 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tun | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wen | punct |
| 16 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sun | compound |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 wen | flat:foreign |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jis | compound |
| 19 | jis | ji | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bin | nsubj |
| 20 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 git | det |
| 22 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bin | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 bin | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 25 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 26 see | discourse |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 bin | conj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 win | nsubj |
| 28 | guine | guine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 win | nsubj |
| 29 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | ccomp |
| 30 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bet | compound |
| 31 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 win | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin up | present | bet sun jis | a git | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent git=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | bet sun jis not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | win | present | de bet | who nsubj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality |
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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