Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 2
John, already appalled at the suffering which he had endured, gazed upon the instrument with eyes as big as saucers, and resolutely closed his mouth.
Who acts: John · What happens: appall, endure, gaze, close · To what, where: suffering, mouth
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), 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 | 4 appalled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 John | punct |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 appalled | advmod |
| 4 | appalled | appall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 suffering | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 suffering | det |
| 7 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appalled | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 endured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 endured | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 endured | aux |
| 11 | endured | endure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 suffering | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 endured | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 instrument | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 instrument | det |
| 16 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazed | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 instrument | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 instrument | amod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 saucers | case |
| 22 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 big | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 closed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 closed | cc |
| 25 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 26 closed | advmod |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appalled | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 closed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appall | participle | John | the suffering | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | endure | past · perfect · passive | the suffering | John nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | gaze | participle | upon the instrument with eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon instrument=Theme | |||||
| 4 | close | past | John not said here | John's mouth | resolutely property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/13/2/