Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 169
De Eagle, him duh er wise bud.
To what, where: Eagle wise bud
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 Eagle | compound |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bud | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 him | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Eagle | nmod |
| 5 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 7 wise | discourse |
| 6 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 wise | advmod |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bud | amod |
| 8 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bud | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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