Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 46
Sometimes the alligator attained huge proportions, measuring, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, fourteen feet.
Who acts: alligator · What happens: attain, measure · To what, where: huge proportions, tip
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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 attained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 alligator | det |
| 3 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attained | nsubj |
| 4 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proportions | amod |
| 6 | proportions | proportion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attained | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 measuring | punct |
| 8 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 attained | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tip | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 tip | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tip | det |
| 12 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measuring | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nose | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nose | det |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tip | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measuring | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tail | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tail | det |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feet | punct |
| 23 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nummod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tail | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attain | past | the alligator | huge proportions | sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Theme | |||
| 2 | measure | gerund | the alligator not said here | the tip of the nose | to the end of the tail and fourteen feet | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tip=Value |
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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