Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 31

Whistles and powder-charges were fabricated from the tusks, which also served a good turn for the pickaninnies to rub their swollen gums against, and to cut their first teeth upon.

Who acts: tusks · What happens: fabricate, serve, rub, cut · To what, where: Whistles, tusks, good turn, swollen gums, first teeth

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 (tusks), 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	Whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fabricated	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 charges	cc
3	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charges	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 powder	punct
5	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Whistles	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fabricated	aux:pass
7	fabricated	fabricate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 tusks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tusks	det
10	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fabricated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 served	nsubj
13	also	also	ADV	_	14 served	advmod
14	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tusks	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 turn	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 turn	amod
17	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 served	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 pickaninnies	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pickaninnies	det
20	pickaninnies	pickaninny	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 served	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rub	mark
22	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pickaninnies	acl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gums	nmod:poss
24	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gums	amod
25	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rub	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	22 rub	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cut	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cut	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cut	mark
30	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fabricated	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 teeth	nmod:poss
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 teeth	amod
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cut	obj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 cut	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fabricated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fabricate	past · passive		Whistles and powder charges	the tusks		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from tusk=Material
2	serve	past	the tusks	a good turn		for the pickaninnies	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent turn=Theme for pickaninny=Recipient
3	rub	to-infinitive	the tusks not said here	Whistles's swollen gums			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gum=Theme
4	cut	to-infinitive		Whistles's first teeth			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 31