Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 43
Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him bank, but eh yent want talk eh name, an eh vise Buh Lion fuh set steel trap fuh ketch de tief.
Who acts: you, de man, yent · What happens: rabbit, tell, say, know, rob, want · To what, where: Buh, talk eh name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, de man, yent), 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Rabbit | obj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Rabbit | xcomp |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rabbit | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | xcomp |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 man | compound |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rob | nsubj |
| 13 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 12 man | discourse |
| 14 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 15 rob | discourse |
| 15 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rob | obj |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rob | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 want | cc |
| 20 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 yent | det |
| 21 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Rabbit | parataxis |
| 23 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | compound |
| 24 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 want | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 vise | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 vise | det |
| 28 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 vise | amod |
| 29 | vise | vise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | appos |
| 30 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 vise | appos |
| 31 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Buh | flat |
| 32 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 35 trap | discourse |
| 33 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trap | amod |
| 34 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trap | compound |
| 35 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 want | obj |
| 36 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 37 ketch | discourse |
| 37 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trap | appos |
| 38 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 ketch | flat:foreign |
| 39 | tief | tief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ketch | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rabbit | imperative | you not said here | Buh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | Buh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buh=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | Buh | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | rob | infinitive | de man | Buh | bank obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | want | present | eh yent | talk eh name | set steel trap obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme trap=Attribute |
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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