Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 16

Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia.

Who acts: Joel · What happens: have, commend · To what, where: admirable way

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 (Joel), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Joel	nmod:desc
2	Joel	Joel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	Chandler	Chandler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Joel	flat
4	Harris	Harris	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Joel	flat
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 commended	punct
12	commended	commend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 way	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 notice	case
14	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 notice	amod
15	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 commended	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dialect	det
17	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 notice	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lore	cc
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lore	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
21	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dialect	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 vogue	case
23	vogue	vogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lore	nmod
24	among	among	ADP	_	26 Negroes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Negroes	det
26	Negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 commended	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Georgia	case
28	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Georgia	compound
29	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Negroes	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Joel Mr.			a admirable way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	commend	participle		a admirable way not said here				to public notice; among the Negroes of Middle Georgia	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 16