Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 255
[2] This and two preceding _Myths_ first published in Augusta, Ga., _Chronicle and Constitutionalist_ of March 11, 1883.
What happens: precede, publish · To what, where: Myths, Augusta, two
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 two | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 two | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 two | cc |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 two | acl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Myths | punct |
| 9 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 preceding | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 published | punct |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 published | advmod |
| 12 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Myths | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Augusta | case |
| 14 | Augusta | Augusta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 published | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ga | punct |
| 16 | Ga | Ga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Augusta | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 published | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Chronicle | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Chronicle | punct |
| 20 | Chronicle | Chronicle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 preceding | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 _ | cc |
| 22 | Constitutionalist | constitutionalist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 _ | amod |
| 23 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Chronicle | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 11 | case |
| 25 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 _ | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 1883 | punct |
| 28 | 1883 | 1883 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 11 | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 two | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | gerund | Myths | Chronicle and Constitutionalist _ of 11 March obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myths=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | publish | participle | Myths not said here | Augusta and Ga | first property | vn create-26.4 «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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