Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 46
Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Wolf bin trow de agg; an soon es Buh Wolf gone back een him house, Buh Rabbit gedder dem up an tote um off een de bush, an seddown an biggin fuh eat dem dist es saterfy es kin be.
Who acts: Wolf bin, es, biggin fuh · What happens: trow, go back, eat · To what, where: Rabbit notus way, een house, dist es
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 (Wolf bin, es, biggin fuh), 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 | 4 way | compound |
| 3 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | compound |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wolf | compound |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | compound |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | nsubj |
| 8 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 agg | compound |
| 10 | agg | agg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trow | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 es | det |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 es | advmod |
| 14 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Buh | flat |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 trow | advcl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 een | advmod |
| 19 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 house | nummod |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 een | obj |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dem | punct |
| 23 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rabbit | compound |
| 24 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 dem | compound |
| 25 | gedder | gedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dem | compound |
| 26 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | obl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 um | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 um | det |
| 29 | tote | tote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 um | compound |
| 30 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dem | nmod |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 een | case |
| 32 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 gone | obl |
| 33 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 bush | compound |
| 34 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 seddown | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 seddown | det |
| 37 | seddown | seddown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | obl |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fuh | det |
| 39 | biggin | biggin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fuh | compound |
| 40 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eat | nsubj |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 seddown | acl:relcl |
| 42 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dist | compound |
| 43 | dist | dist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 es | compound |
| 44 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 eat | obj |
| 45 | saterfy | saterfy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 es | amod |
| 46 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 be | nsubj |
| 47 | kin | kin | ADV | _ | 48 be | advmod |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 es | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trow | present | Wolf bin | Rabbit notus way | de agg obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go back | participle | a es | een house | off een de bush; Rabbit gedder dem up a tote um obl; a seddown obl; Buh nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | eat | present | a biggin fuh | dist es | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient |
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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