Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 104
Only those “born with a caul” were capable of doing so.
Who acts: those · What happens: bear, be, do
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 (those), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 10 capable | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 capable | nsubj |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 those | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 caul | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 caul | det |
| 7 | caul | caul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 capable | cop |
| 10 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 doing | mark |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 capable | advcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 doing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 capable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | participle | with a caul | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | those | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | those not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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