Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 20
In confirmation of this suggestion we record the following Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast.
Who acts: we · What happens: record, follow, confirm · To what, where: Negro Myths, confirmation, suggestion
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 (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 confirmation | case |
| 2 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 record | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 suggestion | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 suggestion | det |
| 5 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confirmation | nmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 record | nsubj |
| 7 | record | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Myths | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Myths | case |
| 10 | Negro | Negro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Myths | compound |
| 11 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 record | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Coast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Coast | det |
| 14 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Coast | compound |
| 15 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Myths | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 record | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | we | the Negro Myths | confirmation of this suggestion | from the Georgia Coast | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myths=Theme in confirmation=Destination | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | confirm | this suggestion | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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