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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Man | compound |
| 2 | Cunjur | Cunjur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 De | flat |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ober | nsubj |
| 4 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Man | flat |
| 5 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 ober | advmod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ober | amod |
| 7 | miration | miration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ober | compound |
| 8 | ober | ober | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 12 bin | discourse |
| 10 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bin | compound |
| 12 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ober | appos |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bin | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eh | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 eh | det |
| 16 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ober | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Rabbit | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Rabbit | punct |
| 20 | Buh | buh | INTJ | _ | 21 Rabbit | discourse |
| 21 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ob | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 you | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 Rabbit | conj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ob | cop |
| 25 | suttenly | suttenly | ADV | _ | 28 ob | advmod |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 ob | compound |
| 27 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 ob | amod |
| 28 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ober | conj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 animel | det |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 animel | compound |
| 31 | animel | animel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ob | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sense | punct |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sense | det |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 sense | nsubj |
| 35 | sense | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 animel | acl:relcl |
| 36 | shill | shill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 git | compound |
| 37 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 mo | compound |
| 38 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sense | obj |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 day | det |
| 40 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ebry | compound |
| 41 | ebry | ebry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 day | compound |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sense | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ober | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Rabbit bin not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | a eh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Rabbit you | de smartest ob | all de animel appos; suttenly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sense in a quote | present | you | git mo | day | vn 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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