Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 121
Arter Buh Wolf bin lick Buh Rabbit an trow um een de brier patch case eh ketch um der tief water outer him spring, Buh Rabbit faid fuh meet Buh Wolf, an him leff an gone buil ehself new house een Buh Bear settlement.
Who acts: Arter, Buh, gone buil · What happens: lick, trow, meet, house · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, um, Buh
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 (Arter, Buh, gone buil), 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 | Arter | Arter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lick | nsubj |
| 2 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Arter | flat |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | compound |
| 4 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Arter | flat |
| 5 | lick | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lick | obj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trow | det |
| 9 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lick | conj |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trow | obj |
| 11 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 um | flat |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 case | compound |
| 13 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patch | compound |
| 14 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 case | compound |
| 15 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trow | obj |
| 16 | eh | eh | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 um | nummod |
| 17 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 um | compound |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trow | parataxis |
| 19 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 um | amod |
| 20 | tief | tief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 water | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 outer | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spring | amod |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 outer | nsubj |
| 24 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 der | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 meet | punct |
| 26 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | nsubj |
| 27 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Buh | flat |
| 28 | faid | faid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Buh | list |
| 29 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 30 meet | discourse |
| 30 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lick | parataxis |
| 31 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | obj |
| 32 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Buh | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 leff | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 leff | det |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 leff | compound |
| 36 | leff | leff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Buh | appos |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 buil | det |
| 38 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 buil | amod |
| 39 | buil | buil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 house | nsubj |
| 40 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 house | nsubj |
| 41 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 house | amod |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | obl |
| 43 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 house | flat |
| 44 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 settlement | compound |
| 45 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 settlement | compound |
| 46 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 een | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | present | Arter | Buh Rabbit | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rabbit=Source | ||||
| 2 | trow | present | Arter not said here | um | de patch case obj; eh ketch um parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet | infinitive | Buh | Buh | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | house | a gone buil | ehself nsubj | 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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