Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 105
Such were never terrified by these ghostly visitors.
What happens: not be
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: 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 terrified | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 terrified | advmod |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 visitors | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 visitors | det |
| 7 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 visitors | amod |
| 8 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 terrified | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | by this ghostly visitors; terrified property | tree rules |
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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