Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 17
With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and now fast lapsing into oblivion.
Who acts: Joel · What happens: perpetuate, lapse · To what, where: legends, oblivion
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 fidelity | case |
| 2 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perpetuated | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cleverness | cc |
| 4 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fidelity | conj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perpetuated | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 perpetuated | nsubj |
| 7 | perpetuated | perpetuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 legends | det |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 perpetuated | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 songs | cc |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 legends | conj |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 current | advmod |
| 13 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legends | amod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 peoples | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 peoples | det |
| 16 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 current | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lapsing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lapsing | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lapsing | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 lapsing | advmod |
| 21 | lapsing | lapse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 perpetuated | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 oblivion | case |
| 23 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lapsing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 perpetuated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perpetuate | present · perfect | Joel | the legends and songs | with fidelity and cleverness | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent legend=Patient with fidelity=Instrument | |||
| 2 | lapse | gerund | Joel not said here | oblivion | now | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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