Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 32
Bad plan fur stranger fuh meddle long tarruh people bidness.
What happens: meddle · To what, where: long tarruh
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 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plan | amod |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fur | compound |
| 3 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | nsubj |
| 4 | stranger | strange | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 6 meddle | discourse |
| 6 | meddle | meddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stranger | advcl |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tarruh | amod |
| 8 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meddle | obj |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bidness | compound |
| 10 | bidness | bidness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tarruh | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stranger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meddle | present | long tarruh and people bidness | tree rules |
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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