Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 121
For the first time Jack beheld sundry appliances which modern ingenuity had devised for the facile extraction of teeth.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: behold, devise, extract · To what, where: sundry appliances, modern ingenuity, teeth
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 (Jack), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obl |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sundry | sundry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appliances | amod |
| 8 | appliances | appliance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beheld | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 devised | obj |
| 10 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ingenuity | amod |
| 11 | ingenuity | ingenuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 devised | aux |
| 13 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 appliances | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 extraction | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 extraction | det |
| 16 | facile | facile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 extraction | amod |
| 17 | extraction | extraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devised | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 extraction | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | Jack | sundry appliances | time | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appliance=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | devise | past · perfect · passive | modern ingenuity | for the facile extraction of teeth; sundry appliances obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | extract | teeth | nom extraction «process 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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