Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 64
Near the negro quarter, where he resided on the home-plantation, was a small creek, in which the tide ebbed and flowed.
Who acts: Sawney, tide · What happens: reside, be, ebb, flow · To what, where: home plantation, small creek, negro quarter
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 (Sawney, tide), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 quarter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quarter | det |
| 3 | negro | negro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quarter | amod |
| 4 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creek | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resided | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 resided | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 resided | nsubj |
| 8 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quarter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 plantation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plantation | det |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plantation | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 home | punct |
| 13 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resided | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quarter | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 creek | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 creek | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creek | amod |
| 18 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ebbed | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 ebbed | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tide | det |
| 23 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ebbed | nsubj |
| 24 | ebbed | ebb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 creek | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flowed | cc |
| 26 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ebbed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 creek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reside | past | Sawney | the home plantation | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plantation=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a small creek | the negro quarter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ebb | past | the tide | a small creek | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flow | past | the tide not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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