Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 23
To the European, newly landed on these shores, the alligator was indeed a novelty, repulsive and provocative of dread.
Who acts: alligator · What happens: land, be · To what, where: shores, novelty
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 (alligator), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 European | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 European | det |
| 3 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 landed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 landed | punct |
| 5 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 6 landed | advmod |
| 6 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shores | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 shores | det |
| 9 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 landed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 novelty | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 alligator | det |
| 12 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 novelty | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 novelty | cop |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 novelty | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 novelty | det |
| 16 | novelty | novelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 landed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 repulsive | punct |
| 18 | repulsive | repulsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 novelty | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 provocative | cc |
| 20 | provocative | provocative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 repulsive | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dread | case |
| 22 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repulsive | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | participle | this shores | to the European; newly property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on shore=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the alligator | a novelty | indeed 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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