Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 49
In ante-bellum days, when firearms were denied to the negro population, alligators were far more numerous than they are at present.
Who acts: alligators, firearms · What happens: deny, be · To what, where: firearms
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 (alligators, firearms), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ante | punct |
| 4 | bellum | bellum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 numerous | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 denied | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 denied | advmod |
| 8 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 denied | aux:pass |
| 10 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 days | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 population | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 population | det |
| 13 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 population | compound |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 denied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 16 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 numerous | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 numerous | cop |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 numerous | advmod |
| 20 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 present | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 present | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 present | cop |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 present | case |
| 25 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 numerous | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 numerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | past · passive | firearms | to the negro population | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | alligators | day | numerous property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | firearms = firearm | present property | tree rules |
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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