Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 65
A large log furnished convenient means for crossing it.
Who acts: large log · What happens: furnish, mean, cross · To what, where: large log, log
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 (large log), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 log | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 log | amod |
| 3 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 log | acl |
| 5 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 furnished | xcomp |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 crossing | mark |
| 8 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crossing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | participle | a large log not said here | convenient property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a large log | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | a large log not said here | log | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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