Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 5
After much persuasion Jack prevailed upon him to open his mouth and let him “tek de ting out.”
Who acts: Jack · What happens: prevail, open, let out · To what, where: mouth, Jack
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 (Jack), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 persuasion | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persuasion | amod |
| 3 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prevailed | obl |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 prevailed | nsubj |
| 5 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prevailed | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 open | mark |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prevailed | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 open | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ting | punct |
| 16 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ting | compound |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 tek | flat:foreign |
| 18 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevailed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | Jack | after much persuasion | upon John | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let out | infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack | tek ting obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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