Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 30
Its skin, rudely tanned, entered largely into the composition of home-made pouches and shoes.
Who acts: skin · What happens: tan, enter, make · To what, where: skin, composition
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 (skin), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tanned | punct |
| 4 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 5 tanned | advmod |
| 5 | tanned | tan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 skin | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 skin | punct |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 7 entered | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 composition | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 composition | det |
| 11 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pouches | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 home | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pouches | amod |
| 16 | pouches | pouch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 composition | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shoes | cc |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pouches | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tan | participle | medicinal's skin not said here | rudely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | medicinal's skin | the composition of made pouches and shoes | largely property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into composition=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make | participle | home compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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