Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 77
Eh no bin know say narrur holler bin on tarruh side er de tree, an dat Buh Rabbit done run clean tru an gone.
Who acts: bin, dat, Buh Rabbit · What happens: say, rabbit, do, run · To what, where: holler bin, tarruh side, Buh Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bin, dat, Buh Rabbit), 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 | Eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 5 say | discourse |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 bin | det |
| 3 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | narrur | narrur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holler | compound |
| 7 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bin | compound |
| 8 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | compound |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 12 | er | er | ADV | _ | 14 tree | advmod |
| 13 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tree | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rabbit | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dat | det |
| 17 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 18 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rabbit | compound |
| 19 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | nsubj |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Rabbit | acl |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | parataxis |
| 22 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 run | xcomp |
| 23 | tru | tru | ADP | _ | 25 gone | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gone | det |
| 25 | gone | gone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | no bin | holler bin | tarruh side de's tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic | |||
| 2 | rabbit | a dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | participle | Buh Rabbit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run | present | Buh Rabbit | tru a gone; clean property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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