Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 14
WHOSE FIDELITY AND AFFECTION CONTRIBUTED SO MATERIALLY TO ITS COMFORT AND HAPPINESS.
Who acts: AFFECTION · What happens: contribute, comfort · To what, where: AFFECTION, COMFORT, FIDELITY
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AFFECTION), 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 | WHOSE | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 FIDELITY | nmod:poss |
| 2 | FIDELITY | FIDELITY | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 AFFECTION | cc |
| 4 | AFFECTION | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 FIDELITY | conj |
| 5 | CONTRIBUTED | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 AFFECTION | acl |
| 6 | SO | so | ADV | _ | 7 MATERIALLY | advmod |
| 7 | MATERIALLY | materially | ADV | _ | 5 CONTRIBUTED | advmod |
| 8 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 10 COMFORT | case |
| 9 | ITS | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 COMFORT | nmod:poss |
| 10 | COMFORT | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 CONTRIBUTED | obl |
| 11 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 HAPPINESS | cc |
| 12 | HAPPINESS | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 COMFORT | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 FIDELITY | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contribute | participle | AFFECTION not said here | AFFECTION's COMFORT and HAPPINESS | materially property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to comfort=Recipient | |||
| 3 | comfort | AFFECTION | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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