Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 20

Foremost among the reptiles which excited the curiosity and aroused the fears of the Georgia colonists, upon their first acquaintance with them, were the alligators.

Who acts: colonists · What happens: arouse, be, fear, acquaint · To what, where: fears, alligators, Georgia colonists

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 (colonists), 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	Foremost	foremost	ADV	_	6 excited	advmod
2	among	among	ADP	_	4 reptiles	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reptiles	det
4	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 excited	obl
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 excited	nsubj
6	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 curiosity	det
8	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 excited	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 aroused	cc
10	aroused	arouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 excited	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fears	det
12	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 aroused	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 colonists	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 colonists	det
15	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 colonists	compound
16	colonists	colonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fears	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 acquaintance	punct
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 acquaintance	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 acquaintance	nmod:poss
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 acquaintance	amod
21	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 aroused	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 acquaintance	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 alligators	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 alligators	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 alligators	det
27	alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 aroused	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 excited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arouse	past		the fears of the Georgia colonists	upon colonists's first acquaintance with colonists	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer
2	is a	past		the alligators		tree rules
4	fear			the Georgia colonists		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	acquaint		colonists = colonist		with colonists = colonist	nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 20