Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 110
De sun hot, an befo long Buh Rabbit biggin fuh drap behine.
What happens: drap · To what, where: behine, De sun
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: 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sun | compound |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sun | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 biggin | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 biggin | det |
| 6 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 biggin | amod |
| 8 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 biggin | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 biggin | compound |
| 10 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sun | conj |
| 11 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 12 drap | discourse |
| 12 | drap | drap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 biggin | csubj |
| 13 | behine | behine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drap | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap | infinitive | behine | tree rules |
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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