Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 116
He understood how to cut around an aching tooth with the same lancet which he employed in blood-letting from the arm.
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: understand, cut, employ, let · To what, where: aching tooth, same lancet, arm
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: who acts (Daddy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cut | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cut | mark |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 understood | xcomp |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 tooth | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tooth | det |
| 8 | aching | aching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tooth | compound |
| 9 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lancet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lancet | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lancet | amod |
| 13 | lancet | lancet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 employed | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 employed | nsubj |
| 16 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lancet | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 letting | mark |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 letting | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 blood | punct |
| 20 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 employed | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 arm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arm | det |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 letting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Daddy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | Daddy not said here | a aching tooth | with the same lancet | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tooth=Location | |||
| 3 | employ | past | Daddy | the same lancet | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | gerund | Daddy not said here | the arm | blood compound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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