Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
Wen dem git ter de ribber bank, day was Buh Porpus duh wait fur Buh Rabbit.
Who acts: Wen git ter, Buh · What happens: be, wait · To what, where: Buh, fur
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen git ter, Buh), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 git | compound |
| 3 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | compound |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Buh | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 bank | compound |
| 6 | ribber | ribber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bank | compound |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ter | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Buh | cop |
| 11 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | nsubj |
| 12 | Porpus | Porpus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Buh | flat |
| 13 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 14 wait | discourse |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | obj |
| 16 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rabbit | compound |
| 17 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wen git ter and day | Buh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | Buh | fur | Buh Rabbit advcl | 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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