Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 98
While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come out, but Buh Rabbit wouldnt yeddy um.
Who acts: Buh, Buh Rabbit · What happens: pray, come out, um · To what, where: Buh bague
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 (Buh, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 bun | mark |
| 2 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 4 bun | discourse |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 4 bun | discourse |
| 4 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pray | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bun | punct |
| 6 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bague | compound |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buh | flat |
| 8 | bague | bague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pray | nmod:desc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pray | det |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Buh | flat |
| 13 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 16 come | discourse |
| 14 | leh | leh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 um | det |
| 15 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pray | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 um | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 um | cc |
| 20 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rabbit | compound |
| 21 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 um | nsubj |
| 22 | wouldnt | wouldnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 um | amod |
| 23 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 um | compound |
| 24 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | Buh bague | bun advcl | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | Buh | leh um nsubj; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | um | Buh Rabbit | 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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