Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 47
Buh Fox an Buh Rabbit, dem study ober de ting, an dem mek up dem mine say ef Buh Lion fine Buh Coon een de trap, eh not only gwine kill Buh Coon, but eh will sen an kill all eh fambly.
Who acts: you, mine, ef, eh · What happens: fox, mek up, say, fine, sen · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, dem, kill · 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, mine, ef, eh), 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 Fox | discourse |
| 2 | Fox | fox | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | compound |
| 5 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ober | punct |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 study | compound |
| 8 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ober | compound |
| 9 | ober | ober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rabbit | conj |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 ting | case |
| 11 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ober | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dem | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dem | det |
| 14 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ober | conj |
| 15 | mek | mek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Fox | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 mek | compound:prt |
| 17 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mek | obj |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dem | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fine | nsubj |
| 21 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ef | appos |
| 22 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Buh | flat |
| 23 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | ccomp |
| 24 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 trap | compound |
| 25 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Buh | flat |
| 26 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 Buh | list |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 trap | compound |
| 28 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fine | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eh | punct |
| 30 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 28 trap | discourse |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 kill | advmod |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 kill | advmod |
| 33 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 kill | amod |
| 34 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eh | conj |
| 35 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 kill | appos |
| 36 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Buh | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sen | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 sen | cc |
| 39 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sen | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 sen | aux |
| 41 | sen | sen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Fox | conj |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 kill | det |
| 43 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sen | obj |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 eh | det |
| 45 | eh | eh | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 sen | obj |
| 46 | fambly | fambly | ADV | _ | 41 sen | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fox | imperative | you not said here | a Buh Rabbit and study ober de ting and a dem | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rabbit=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mek up | infinitive | you not said here | dem | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | mine | dem not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fine | past | ef | Buh de trap parataxis | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sen | future | eh | a kill | fambly property | 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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