Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 57

Of mankind they apparently entertained an inborn fear, and would quit the part of the river or lagoon in which men or even boys were swimming.

Who acts: ducks, men · What happens: entertain, quit, swim · To what, where: inborn fear, part

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 (ducks, men), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 mankind	case
2	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entertained	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 entertained	nsubj
4	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	5 entertained	advmod
5	entertained	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fear	det
7	inborn	inborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fear	amod
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entertained	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quit	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quit	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 quit	aux
12	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 entertained	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quit	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 lagoon	cc
19	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 river	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 men	case
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lagoon	nmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 boys	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 boys	advmod
25	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 men	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swimming	aux
27	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 men	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entertained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entertain	past	ducks = duck	a inborn fear	of mankind; apparently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer
2	quit	would	ducks = duck not said here	the part of the river or lagoon in which men or boys		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Source
3	swim	past · progressive	which men or boys not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 57