Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 67
Buh Wolf bin on de keen look-out fuh um.
To what, where: Wolf bin
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: 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wolf | compound |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | compound |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 look | case |
| 5 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 look | nmod:poss |
| 6 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 look | amod |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bin | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 out | punct |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 look | compound |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 11 um | discourse |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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