Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 43
The frolic was joyous, and the exultant shouts of those engaged in the sport awakened strange echoes in the depths of the dank and moss-clad swamps.
Who acts: frolic, exultant, those · What happens: be, shout, engage, awaken · To what, where: sport, strange echoes, depths · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (frolic, exultant, those), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frolic | det |
| 2 | frolic | frolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joyous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyous | cop |
| 4 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouts | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shouts | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 exultant | det |
| 8 | exultant | exultant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shouts | nsubj |
| 9 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 joyous | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 awakened | nsubj |
| 12 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 those | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sport | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sport | det |
| 15 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 engaged | obl |
| 16 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouts | ccomp |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 echoes | amod |
| 18 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 awakened | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 depths | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 depths | det |
| 21 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 echoes | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 swamps | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 swamps | det |
| 24 | dank | dank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 swamps | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 clad | cc |
| 26 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clad | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 moss | punct |
| 28 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dank | conj |
| 29 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 depths | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joyous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the frolic | joyous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the exultant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | engage | participle | in the sport goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in sport=Goal | |||||
| 4 | awaken | past | those | strange echoes | the depths of the dank swamps | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echo=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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