Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well.
To what, where: Buh mek answer
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: 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 | 4 answer | compound |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Buh | flat |
| 3 | mek | mek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | amod |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Me | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Me | punct |
| 7 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nmod |
| 8 | luk | luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 berry | compound |
| 9 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 berry | compound |
| 10 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Me | conj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 Me | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | 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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