Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 40
While snapping at the hook, with its irritating prong, the alligator was in the end securely caught with the barb, and then came the tug of war.
Who acts: alligator · What happens: snap, be, catch, come, tug · To what, where: hook, end, tug, war
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 (alligator), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 snapping | mark |
| 2 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 came | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 hook | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hook | det |
| 5 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snapping | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prong | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 prong | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prong | nmod:poss |
| 9 | irritating | irritating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prong | amod |
| 10 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snapping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 end | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 alligator | det |
| 13 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 end | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prong | appos |
| 18 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 19 caught | advmod |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 end | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 barb | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 barb | det |
| 22 | barb | barb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 came | advmod |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tug | det |
| 28 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 war | case |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tug | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | gerund | the hook | with hook's irritating prong | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hook=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the alligator | in the end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | the end not said here | with the barb; securely property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the tug of war | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tug=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tug | war | nom tug «act 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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