Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 99
Den Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me tell you how we gwine wuk dis ting.
Who acts: Me, we · What happens: tell, gwine · To what, where: Den mek answer, you, dis ting · 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 (Me, we), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | compound |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Den | nmod |
| 6 | mek | mek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 gwine | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gwine | nsubj |
| 15 | gwine | gwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | wuk | wuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dis | compound |
| 17 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ting | compound |
| 18 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gwine | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Me | Den mek answer not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | gwine in a quote | present | we | dis ting | 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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