Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 139
Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um.
Who acts: Den, tell um, furgit bout um · What happens: rabbit up, say, mose, tell · To what, where: bin, eh murrer · 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, tell um, furgit bout 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 | 3 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 Rabbit | compound:prt |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 um | det |
| 6 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | compound |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 9 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 15 chile | discourse |
| 10 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gagement | compound |
| 11 | gagement | gagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fur | compound |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bactize | compound |
| 13 | bactize | bactize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chile | compound |
| 14 | nurrur | nurrur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chile | compound |
| 15 | chile | chile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 hour | case |
| 17 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hour | compound |
| 18 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hour | compound |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chile | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eh | punct |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 eh | det |
| 22 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chile | conj |
| 23 | mose | mose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | ccomp |
| 24 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mose | obj |
| 25 | furgit | furgit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 um | amod |
| 26 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 um | compound |
| 27 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | nsubj |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 mose | parataxis |
| 29 | eh | eh | X | _ | 30 murrer | compound |
| 30 | murrer | murrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | obj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 holler | det |
| 32 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 holler | amod |
| 33 | farruh | farruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 holler | compound |
| 34 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | obj |
| 35 | ter | ter | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 um | flat:foreign |
| 36 | um | um | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 holler | appos |
| 37 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wood | amod |
| 38 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 wood | compound |
| 39 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 um | appos |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 um | det |
| 41 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 um | compound |
| 42 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wood | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit up | present | Den | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a tell um | bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour and a eh ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mose | infinitive | bin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | furgit bout um | eh murrer | a eh farruh holler obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent murrer=Recipient holler=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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