Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
Buh Fox, him berry bex, on eh gedder de cheese an eh fole up eh scale, an eh holler out: “Begone, you rogue.
Who acts: Buh, you · What happens: berry, rogue · To what, where: bex, Begone
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 (Buh, you), 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 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 berry | nsubj |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 berry | punct |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 berry | nsubj |
| 5 | berry | berry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bex | bex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 berry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gedder | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 gedder | case |
| 9 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | compound |
| 10 | gedder | gedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 berry | conj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 cheese | compound |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fole | det |
| 14 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fole | compound |
| 15 | fole | fole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gedder | appos |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 fole | compound:prt |
| 17 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scale | amod |
| 18 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fole | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 holler | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 holler | det |
| 21 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 holler | amod |
| 22 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fole | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 holler | compound:prt |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Begone | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Begone | punct |
| 26 | Begone | Begone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 rogue | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rogue | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 rogue | nsubj |
| 29 | rogue | rogue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 berry | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 berry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | berry | present | Buh | bex | eh gedder and de cheese conj | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bex=Location | |||
| 2 | rogue in a quote | present | you | Begone | 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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