Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 118

With the use of an old-fashioned extractor, with which to pry out an offending molar tooth, sometimes even at the expense of a fractured jaw, he was familiar.

Who acts: Daddy · What happens: pry out, offend, fracture, be, use · To what, where: offending molar tooth, fashioned extractor

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	With	with	ADP	_	3 use	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 use	det
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pry	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 extractor	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 extractor	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fashioned	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
8	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 extractor	amod
9	extractor	extractor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pry	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 pry	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pry	mark
14	pry	pry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 pry	compound:prt
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tooth	det
17	offending	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 tooth	amod
18	molar	molar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tooth	amod
19	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pry	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 expense	punct
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 expense	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	25 expense	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 expense	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 expense	det
25	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tooth	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 jaw	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 jaw	det
28	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 jaw	amod
29	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 expense	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 familiar	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 familiar	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 familiar	cop
33	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pry	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pry out	to-infinitive		a offending molar tooth	with the use of a fashioned extractor; which nsubj	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
2	offend	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	fracture	participle				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	Daddy		familiar property	tree rules
5	use			a fashioned extractor		nom use «act 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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 118