Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 34

Hence it came to pass that the alligator was regarded by the negro both as an enemy and as desirable game.

Who acts: pan, negro · What happens: come, pass, regard · To what, where: alligator

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 (pan, negro), 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	Hence	hence	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 regarded	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 alligator	det
8	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regarded	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 regarded	aux:pass
10	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pass	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 negro	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 negro	det
13	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regarded	obl
14	both	both	CCONJ	_	17 enemy	cc:preconj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 enemy	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 enemy	det
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 negro	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 game	cc
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 game	case
20	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 game	amod
21	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enemy	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	pan		hence property	tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	pan not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	regard	past · passive	the negro as a enemy and desirable game	the alligator		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 34