Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 36
It was killed in rice-field ditches, in shallow ponds, and occasionally upon land.
What happens: kill · To what, where: life, field ditches
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ditches | case |
| 5 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 field | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rice | punct |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ditches | compound |
| 8 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ponds | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ponds | case |
| 11 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ponds | amod |
| 12 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 land | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 land | cc |
| 15 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 17 land | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | life | field ditches | in shallow ponds; upon land | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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