Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
When skinned and thoroughly boiled, its tail was esteemed by many as a savory article of food.
What happens: boil, esteem, article · To what, where: tail, food
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 skinned | advmod |
| 2 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 esteemed | advcl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 boiled | cc |
| 4 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 5 boiled | advmod |
| 5 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 skinned | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 esteemed | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 esteemed | aux:pass |
| 10 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 many | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 esteemed | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 article | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 article | det |
| 15 | savory | savory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 article | amod |
| 16 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 esteemed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 food | case |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 article | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 esteemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | participle | thoroughly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | esteem | past · passive | plantation's tail | by many; as a savory article of food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | article | food | nom article «communication transitive»: of=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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