Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer.
Who acts: Arter dat · What happens: fai, come · To what, where: Buh Chanticleer
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arter dat), 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 | Arter | Arter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 de | punct |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 dat | conj |
| 5 | yaller | yaller | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 de | flat:foreign |
| 6 | Rooster | Rooster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 faid | nsubj |
| 7 | faid | fai | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 come | discourse |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 faid | xcomp |
| 10 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Chanticleer | compound |
| 12 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 faid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fai | past | Arter dat | Rooster nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Arter dat not said here | Buh Chanticleer | nigh property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chanticleer=Theme |
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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