Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 33
Buh Bear fling Buh Tiger; an befo eh leh um git up, eh box um side er de head.
To what, where: Buh Bear fling
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: 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 | 3 fling | compound |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fling | compound |
| 3 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fling | appos |
| 5 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buh | flat |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 git | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 git | det |
| 8 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eh | compound |
| 9 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leh | compound |
| 10 | leh | leh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 git | compound |
| 12 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fling | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 git | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 15 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 18 side | discourse |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 um | compound |
| 17 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | compound |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fling | conj |
| 19 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 head | dep |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 head | compound |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fling | 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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