Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 26
Among these sable myth-makers it figured as an important _dramatis persona_.
Who acts: region · What happens: figure
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 (region), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 6 makers | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 makers | nsubj |
| 3 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makers | amod |
| 4 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makers | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 myth | punct |
| 6 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 figured | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 figured | nsubj |
| 8 | figured | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 persona | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 persona | det |
| 11 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 persona | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 important | punct |
| 13 | dramatis | dramatis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 persona | compound |
| 14 | persona | persona | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 figured | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 figured | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 figured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | figure | past | region | among sable myth makers these; as a important dramatis persona | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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.
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