Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 116
Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know who dem yiz, an wuffer dem duh call me.
Who acts: yiz bin, roun, wuffer dem · What happens: call, know, yiz · To what, where: roun, Rabbit mek answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (yiz bin, roun, wuffer dem), 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 him | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Rabbit | conj |
| 5 | mek | mek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bin | punct |
| 9 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 yiz | compound |
| 10 | yiz | yiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bin | compound |
| 11 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | appos |
| 12 | er | er | PART | _ | 13 call | mark |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bin | acl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 call | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 know | det |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answer | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 yiz | nsubj |
| 20 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yiz | compound |
| 21 | yiz | yiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dem | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dem | det |
| 24 | wuffer | wuffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dem | compound |
| 25 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yiz | appos |
| 26 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 27 call | discourse |
| 27 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dem | acl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 call | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | infinitive | yiz bin not said here | roun | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | roun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | yiz in a quote | who nsubj; a wuffer dem appos | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | call in a quote | infinitive | a wuffer dem not said here | roun | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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