Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 54
It was then eaten at leisure and with apparent relish.
What happens: eat · To what, where: blow, leisure
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 eaten | advmod |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 leisure | case |
| 6 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 relish | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 relish | case |
| 9 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 relish | amod |
| 10 | relish | relish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leisure | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | blow | leisure and apparent relish | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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