Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 42
Eh head swell way Buh Bear bin a box um.
What happens: bin · To what, where: Eh swell way
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 way | compound |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swell | compound |
| 3 | swell | swell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | obl |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 way | appos |
| 6 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | flat |
| 7 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 um | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 um | compound |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | Eh swell way | a box um obj | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
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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