Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 47

It was fond of a given locality, and exercised exclusive dominion over some favorite bend in the river, some chosen part of a lake, or some attractive pool in the swamp.

Who acts: ALLIGATOR · What happens: be, give, choose

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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fond	cop
3	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 locality	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 locality	det
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 locality	amod
7	locality	locality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fond	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dominion	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dominion	cc
10	exercised	exercised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dominion	amod
11	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dominion	amod
12	dominion	dominion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fond	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 bend	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bend	det
15	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bend	amod
16	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dominion	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bend	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 part	punct
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 part	det
22	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 part	amod
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 river	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lake	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lake	det
26	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pool	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 pool	cc
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 pool	det
30	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pool	amod
31	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 river	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 swamp	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 swamp	det
34	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pool	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	ALLIGATOR	of a given locality; exercised exclusive dominion over some favorite bend in the river and some chosen part of a lake or some attractive pool in the swamp conj; fond property	tree rules
2	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	choose	participle			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 47

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 47