Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 44
Buh Bear hole um gen an eh trow um berry easy, an den eh box um gen in de same ole place sider eh head, way eh bin a knock um befo, an wuh swell.
Who acts: Buh um gen, way · What happens: trow, bin · To what, where: um berry, um befo
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 um gen, way), 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 | 5 gen | compound |
| 2 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 um | compound |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gen | compound |
| 5 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | nsubj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 eh | det |
| 7 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | nsubj |
| 8 | trow | trow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 berry | compound |
| 10 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | obj |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trow | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gen | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gen | det |
| 14 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eh | compound |
| 15 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 um | compound |
| 17 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gen | compound |
| 18 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 20 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 head | amod |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 head | amod |
| 22 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 head | amod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sider | compound |
| 24 | sider | sider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eh | compound |
| 25 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | compound |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gen | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 way | punct |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gen | appos |
| 29 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 30 bin | advmod |
| 30 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 way | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 befo | det |
| 32 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 um | compound |
| 33 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 befo | compound |
| 34 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bin | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 swell | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 swell | det |
| 37 | wuh | wuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 swell | amod |
| 38 | swell | swell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 befo | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trow | infinitive | Buh um gen | um berry | a eh nsubj; a um gen in de same ole eh head parataxis; easy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bin | present | way not said here | a um befo | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent befo=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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