Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 157
Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de butter.
Who acts: Den · What happens: slip, clean up · To what, where: ter Wolf house, las
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), 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 | 4 slip | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | roun | roun | X | _ | 6 ter | compound |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 7 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | compound |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slip | obj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 clean | det |
| 11 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slip | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 clean | compound:prt |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 las | nmod |
| 14 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clean | obj |
| 15 | er | er | X | _ | 17 butter | compound |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 er | flat:foreign |
| 17 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 las | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | present | Den | ter Wolf house | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 2 | clean up | present | Den not said here | las de er butter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent la=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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