Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 48
The patriarch, with its attendant consort and progeny, there reigned supreme, unless, after severe battle, it was driven away by one more powerful.
What happens: reign, drive away · To what, where: ALLIGATOR, patriarch
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 patriarch | det |
| 2 | patriarch | patriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consort | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 consort | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 consort | nmod:poss |
| 6 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consort | compound |
| 7 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patriarch | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 progeny | cc |
| 9 | progeny | progeny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consort | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reigned | punct |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 reigned | advmod |
| 12 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 patriarch | parataxis |
| 13 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reigned | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 driven | punct |
| 15 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 23 driven | mark |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unless | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 battle | case |
| 18 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battle | amod |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driven | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 battle | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 driven | aux:pass |
| 23 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reigned | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 driven | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 powerful | mark |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 powerful | nsubj |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 powerful | advmod |
| 28 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 driven | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 patriarch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | there | supreme property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive away a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | ALLIGATOR | after severe battle | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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