Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 37
Buh Rabbit an Buh Wolf come topper nough er Cooter nes, an dem gedder de agg an share um equel.
Who acts: Rabbit, dem gedder · What happens: come, agg · To what, where: topper nough, share um
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 (Rabbit, dem gedder), 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 | Buh | buh | INTJ | _ | 2 Rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | compound |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nough | compound |
| 8 | nough | nough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obj |
| 9 | er | er | ADP | _ | 11 nes | case |
| 10 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nes | compound |
| 11 | nes | ne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gedder | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gedder | det |
| 14 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gedder | compound |
| 15 | gedder | gedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nes | appos |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 gedder | flat:foreign |
| 17 | agg | agg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 gedder | acl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 um | det |
| 19 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 um | compound |
| 20 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 agg | obj |
| 21 | equel | equel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 agg | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Rabbit | topper nough | er Cooter nes; a Buh Wolf nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nough=Theme | |||
| 2 | agg | gerund | a dem gedder not said here | a share um | equel property | 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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