Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 7
You ebber notus say Buh Elephunt yez all de time duh heng down, an eh cant cock um up luk de tarruh creetuh?
Who acts: ebber notus · What happens: say down · To what, where: Buh
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 (ebber notus), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ebber | nsubj |
| 2 | ebber | ebb | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 notus | amod |
| 3 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | Elephunt | Elephunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buh | flat |
| 7 | yez | yez | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Buh | dep |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 12 heng | discourse |
| 12 | heng | heng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | appos |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 say | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cock | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cock | det |
| 16 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cock | amod |
| 17 | cant | cant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cock | compound |
| 18 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | parataxis |
| 19 | um | um | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 luk | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 um | compound:prt |
| 21 | luk | luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cock | appos |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 luk | flat:foreign |
| 23 | tarruh | tarruh | INTJ | _ | 18 cock | discourse |
| 24 | creetuh | creetuh | INTJ | _ | 18 cock | discourse |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say down speech: assert | present | ebber notus | Buh | time | a eh cant cock parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic |
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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