Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 34
Nex day Buh Bear come gen same time, and Buh Tiger meet um, an dem rastle, an Buh Bear fling um an hit um side er de head, same place way eh bin knock um de day befo.
Who acts: Buh Tiger, er, eh bin · What happens: come, meet, rastle, head, knock · To what, where: um, Buh Bear fling, um side
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 (Buh Tiger, er, eh bin), 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 | Nex | Nex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | compound |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buh | flat |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meet | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 meet | cc |
| 11 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tiger | compound |
| 12 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 14 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dem | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dem | det |
| 17 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 um | conj |
| 18 | rastle | rastle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 meet | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fling | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fling | det |
| 21 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | compound |
| 22 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | compound |
| 23 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rastle | obl |
| 24 | um | um | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 26 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 um | compound |
| 27 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | compound |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | nmod |
| 29 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 head | nsubj |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 er | flat:foreign |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 side | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 way | punct |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 way | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 way | compound |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | conj |
| 36 | eh | eh | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 bin | nummod |
| 37 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knock | nsubj |
| 38 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 way | acl:relcl |
| 39 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knock | obj |
| 40 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 befo | amod |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 befo | compound |
| 42 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 um | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | day; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | Buh Tiger | um and a dem | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | rastle | infinitive | Buh Tiger not said here | a Buh Bear fling um a um side and same place way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | head | er | a um side not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | knock | present | eh bin | um and de day befo | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
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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