Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 52

For the capture of animals drinking at the water’s edge, or swimming in lake or river, the tail was employed.

Who acts: animals · What happens: drink, swim, employ, capture · To what, where: edge, lake, tail, animals

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 (animals), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 capture	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 capture	det
3	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 employed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 capture	nmod
6	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 animals	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 water	case
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swimming	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 swimming	cc
14	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 drinking	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 lake	case
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swimming	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 river	cc
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lake	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 capture	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tail	det
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 employed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 employed	aux:pass
23	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund	animals not said here		the water's edge		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swim	gerund	animals not said here		lake or river		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory
3	employ	past · passive		the tail		for the capture of animals	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for capture=Eventuality
4	capture			animals			nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 52