Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 60
He will be pardoned for recalling one of them.
What happens: pardon, recall · To what, where: man, one
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardoned | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 recalling | mark |
| 6 | recalling | recall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pardoned | advcl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 recalling | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | future · passive | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | recall | gerund | one of children | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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