Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 128

One bright spring morning, a stalwart young carpenter, John by name, who had been suffering from a decayed jaw-tooth of huge proportions, presented himself with swollen face and most lugubrious countenance.

Who acts: stalwart young carpenter · What happens: suffer, decay, present · To what, where: decayed jaw tooth, carpenter

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 (stalwart young carpenter), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 presented	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 carpenter	det
7	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carpenter	compound
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carpenter	amod
9	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 presented	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 John	punct
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 carpenter	appos
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 name	case
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 John	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suffering	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 suffering	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 suffering	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 suffering	aux
18	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 carpenter	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	24 tooth	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tooth	det
21	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tooth	amod
22	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tooth	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 jaw	punct
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suffering	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 proportions	case
26	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 proportions	amod
27	proportions	proportion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tooth	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carpenter	punct
29	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 presented	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 face	case
32	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 face	amod
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 presented	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 countenance	cc
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 lugubrious	advmod
36	lugubrious	lugubrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 countenance	amod
37	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 face	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past · perfect · progressive	a stalwart young carpenter		a decayed jaw tooth of huge proportions			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	decay	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	present	past	a stalwart young carpenter	carpenter		morning	with swollen face and lugubrious countenance	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with face=Theme

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 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 128