Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 38
Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an sweet, Buh Rabbit slip eh han een eh bag an onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf eh suck all de agg wuh bin fall ter him share befo dem retch de fork er de road way dem gwine part compny.
Who acts: es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg, um · What happens: gwine, slip, suck, fall, share · To what, where: han eh bag
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 (es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg), 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 | Dem | dem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 um | amod |
| 2 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 um | compound |
| 3 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slip | nsubj |
| 4 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 um | flat |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 um | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gwine | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gwine | det |
| 8 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gwine | nsubj |
| 9 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gin | compound |
| 10 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gwine | compound |
| 11 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 um | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 gwine | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agg | punct |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 agg | compound |
| 15 | agg | agg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gwine | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 fresh | advmod |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 agg | amod |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sweet | det |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fresh | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Buh | punct |
| 21 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 slip | nsubj |
| 22 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Buh | flat |
| 23 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 han | compound |
| 25 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bag | compound |
| 26 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 han | flat |
| 27 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bag | compound |
| 28 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slip | obj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 ter | det |
| 30 | onbeknowinst | onbeknowin | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 ter | amod |
| 31 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 suck | nsubj |
| 32 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 suck | nsubj |
| 33 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Buh | flat |
| 34 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 35 suck | discourse |
| 35 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slip | parataxis |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 agg | det |
| 37 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 agg | compound |
| 38 | agg | agg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fall | nsubj |
| 39 | wuh | wuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bin | amod |
| 40 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fall | nsubj |
| 41 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 suck | parataxis |
| 42 | ter | ter | SCONJ | _ | 44 share | mark |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 share | nsubj |
| 44 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fall | advcl |
| 45 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 47 retch | case |
| 46 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 retch | compound |
| 47 | retch | retch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 share | obl |
| 48 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 49 fork | compound |
| 49 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 retch | conj |
| 50 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 retch | conj |
| 51 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 50 er | flat:foreign |
| 52 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 way | compound |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dem | compound |
| 54 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 er | appos |
| 55 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 compny | amod |
| 56 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 compny | compound |
| 57 | compny | compny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 dem | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine | es | de agg conj; home property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slip | present | Dem pit um and bag and a gin gwine and de agg | han eh bag | Buh nsubj | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | |||
| 3 | suck | infinitive | a onbeknowinst ter | Buh nsubj | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | all de agg | wuh bin nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | present | um | befo dem retch and de fork | 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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