Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

John was quickly upon his feet, and then upon tiptoe, so that Jack could no longer operate to any advantage.

Who acts: John, Jack · What happens: be, operate

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feet	cop
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 feet	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tiptoe	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tiptoe	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 tiptoe	advmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 tiptoe	case
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feet	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 operate	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 operate	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 operate	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 operate	aux
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 operate	advmod
19	operate	operate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tiptoe	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 advantage	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 advantage	det
22	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 operate	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	John					upon John's feet; tiptoe parataxis; quickly property	tree rules
2	operate	could	Jack					to any advantage; long property	vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 13, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 10