Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 55

Sometimes days were allowed to elapse before the slain animal or bird became suitably seasoned for the feast.

Who acts: days, slain animal · What happens: allow, elapse, become, season · To what, where: days

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 (days, slain animal), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 allowed	advmod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 elapse	mark
6	elapse	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 became	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
9	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bird	cc
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animal	conj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 elapse	advcl
14	suitably	suitably	ADV	_	15 seasoned	advmod
15	seasoned	season	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 became	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 feast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seasoned	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		days	sometimes property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	elapse not said to happen	to-infinitive	days not said here			tree rules
3	become	past	the slain animal or bird			tree rules
4	season	participle	the slain animal or bird not said here		for the feast; suitably property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 55