Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 132

As the cutting proceeded and the blood trickled from the corners of John’s mouth, Jack encouraged his demoralized patient with the injunction: “Tan ter um luk er man, me son.

Who acts: cutting, Jack · What happens: proceed, trickle, encourage, demoralize · To what, where: blood, corners, demoralized patient

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 (cutting, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 proceeded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cutting	det
3	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proceeded	nsubj
4	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 encouraged	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blood	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proceeded	obj
8	trickled	trickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 blood	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 corners	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corners	det
11	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trickled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
13	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mouth	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 John	case
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corners	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proceeded	punct
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 encouraged	nsubj
18	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 patient	nmod:poss
20	demoralized	demoralize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 patient	amod
21	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 encouraged	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 injunction	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 injunction	det
24	injunction	injunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 patient	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 luk	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 luk	punct
27	Tan	tan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 luk	amod
28	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 luk	compound
30	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 patient	conj
31	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 man	nmod:poss
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 son	nmod:poss
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 me	punct
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 man	conj
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 luk	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 encouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	the cutting	the blood			tree rules
2	trickle	participle		the blood not said here	the corners of John's mouth		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from corner=Source
3	encourage	past	Jack	John's demoralized patient and Tan um luk er's man me's son		with the injunction	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Theme
4	demoralize	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 132