Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 1
De nex time Buh Rabbit gone der well long him calabash fuh git some water, de fus ting eh know de crawfish grab um by eh tail.
Who acts: Buh, de, De nex time · What happens: git, eh, know, grab · To what, where: water, um · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh, de, De nex time), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 2 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | nsubj |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buh | flat |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 der | amod |
| 7 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Buh | list |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 git | advmod |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 git | nsubj |
| 11 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 git | compound |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 git | amod |
| 13 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 git | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eh | punct |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 eh | nsubj |
| 18 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eh | amod |
| 19 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eh | compound |
| 20 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 git | conj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | de | de | ADP | _ | 23 crawfish | case |
| 23 | crawfish | crawfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grab | obl |
| 24 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grab | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 tail | case |
| 27 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tail | amod |
| 28 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grab | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | git | Buh | some water | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eh | de | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | De nex time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | grab | present | um | de crawfish; by eh tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
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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