Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 124
Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um say dem bin call um _Fus Biginnin_.
Who acts: Den ax um, um · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: call um · 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 (Den ax um, um), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 9 name | discourse |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | compound |
| 8 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | compound |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | conj |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 chile | compound |
| 11 | chile | chile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rabbit | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Rabbit | compound |
| 15 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | conj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | compound |
| 20 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | compound |
| 21 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 um | compound |
| 22 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 24 | Fus | Fus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 _ | flat |
| 25 | Biginnin | Biginnin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fus | flat |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Fus | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Den ax um and dem bin name and de chile and a Buh Rabbit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | um | call um | Fus flat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
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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