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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 127

De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you is suttenly de smartest ob all de animel, an you sense shill git mo an mo ebry day.

Who acts: eh, Rabbit, you · What happens: do, say, be, sense · To what, where: Rabbit bin, de smartest ob, git mo, great miration ober · 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 (eh, Rabbit, you), 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

compoundflatnsubjflatadvmodamodcompounddiscoursecompoundcompoundapposaclpunctdetnsubjparataxispunctpunctdiscoursensubjpunctconjcopadvmodcompoundamodconjdetcompoundappospunctdetnsubjacl:relclcompoundcompoundobjdetcompoundcompoundobl:unmarkedpunctrootDePROPNCunjurPROPNManPROPNmekPROPNerADVgreatADJmirationNOUNoberNOUNwuhINTJBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNbinNOUNdoneVERB,PUNCTanDETehNOUNsayVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTBuhINTJRabbitNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONisAUXsuttenlyADVdeXsmartestADJobNOUNallDETdeXanimelNOUN,PUNCTanDETyouPRONsenseVERBshillNOUNgitNOUNmoNOUNanDETmoNOUNebryNOUNdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DeDePROPNNumber=Sing3 Mancompound
2CunjurCunjurPROPNNumber=Sing1 Deflat
3ManManPROPNNumber=Sing8 obernsubj
4mekMEKPROPNNumber=Sing3 Manflat
5ereADVDegree=Cmp8 oberadvmod
6greatgreatADJDegree=Pos8 oberamod
7mirationmirationNOUNNumber=Sing8 obercompound
8oberoberNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9wuhwuhINTJ_12 bindiscourse
10BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing11 Rabbitcompound
11RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing12 bincompound
12binbinNOUNNumber=Sing8 oberappos
13donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 binacl
14,,PUNCT_16 ehpunct
15anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 ehdet
16ehehNOUNNumber=Sing17 saynsubj
17saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf8 oberparataxis
18::PUNCT_21 Rabbitpunct
19“"PUNCT_21 Rabbitpunct
20BuhbuhINTJ_21 Rabbitdiscourse
21RabbitrabbitNOUNNumber=Sing28 obnsubj
22,,PUNCT_23 youpunct
23youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 Rabbitconj
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 obcop
25suttenlysuttenlyADV_28 obadvmod
26dedeXForeign=Yes28 obcompound
27smartestsmartADJDegree=Sup28 obamod
28obobNOUNNumber=Sing8 oberconj
29allallDETPronType=Tot31 animeldet
30dedeXForeign=Yes31 animelcompound
31animelanimelNOUNNumber=Sing28 obappos
32,,PUNCT_35 sensepunct
33anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 sensedet
34youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs35 sensensubj
35sensesenseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 animelacl:relcl
36shillshillNOUNNumber=Sing37 gitcompound
37gitgitNOUNNumber=Sing38 mocompound
38momoNOUNNumber=Sing35 senseobj
39anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 daydet
40momoNOUNNumber=Sing41 ebrycompound
41ebryebryNOUNNumber=Sing42 daycompound
42daydayNOUNNumber=Sing35 senseobl:unmarked
43..PUNCT_8 oberpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1doparticipleRabbit bin not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertinfinitivea ehvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3is a in a quotepresentRabbit youde smartest oball de animel appos; suttenly propertytree rules
4sense in a quotepresentyougit modayvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus

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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