Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
Buh Monkey slip down de tree an mek track fuh him house.
To what, where: tree track house
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 slip | compound |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slip | compound |
| 3 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 slip | compound:prt |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 track | det |
| 8 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 track | compound |
| 9 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 11 him | discourse |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 track | nmod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | 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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