Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 109
Prominent among the domestics on this plantation was Daddy Jack.
What happens: be · To what, where: Prominent Daddy Jack
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. 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 | Prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Jack | amod |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 domestics | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 domestics | det |
| 4 | domestics | domestic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Prominent | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 plantation | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 plantation | det |
| 7 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 domestics | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Jack | cop |
| 9 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Jack | compound |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Prominent Daddy Jack | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/109/