Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 66
On the night in question, shortly after dark, Sawney shouldered his well-filled bag and set out for his wife’s house.
Who acts: Sawney · What happens: shoulder, fill, set out · To what, where: filled bag
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dark | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 question | case |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 7 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 9 dark | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 dark | case |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shouldered | punct |
| 11 | Sawney | Sawney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shouldered | nsubj |
| 12 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dark | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bag | nmod:poss |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 filled | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bag | amod |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shouldered | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shouldered | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 wife | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | past | Sawney | Sawney's filled bag | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Sawney not said here | for Sawney's wife's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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