Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 101
Dem did leff, an dem yent fine out tel dis day dat eh been Buh Rabbit wuh fool um, an dat no Sperit bin day none tall.
Who acts: Dem, Buh Rabbit · What happens: do, be, fool · To what, where: leff, Buh Rabbit, um
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem, Buh Rabbit), 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 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leff | leff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yent | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 yent | det |
| 6 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yent | compound |
| 7 | yent | yent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leff | appos |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dat | amod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fine | compound:prt |
| 10 | tel | tel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dis | compound |
| 11 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | compound |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dat | compound |
| 13 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | nmod:desc |
| 14 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 17 Rabbit | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 Rabbit | cop |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | compound |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yent | nmod |
| 18 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 19 fool | discourse |
| 19 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fool | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dat | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dat | det |
| 23 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 none | det |
| 25 | Sperit | Sperit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bin | compound |
| 26 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 day | compound |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 none | compound |
| 28 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 tall | nsubj |
| 29 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dat | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dem | leff | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leff=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | Buh Rabbit and a dat | fine day dat nmod:desc; a dat conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fool | infinitive | Buh Rabbit and a dat not said here | um | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: 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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