Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 69
It was not more than half-leg deep, and the creek was only some ten yards wide.
Who acts: bank, creek · What happens: be · To what, where: ten yards
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 (bank, creek), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deep | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 deep | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 deep | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 leg | case |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 leg | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deep | obl |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yards | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yards | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creek | det |
| 13 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yards | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 yards | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 yards | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 yards | det |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 yards | nummod |
| 18 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deep | conj |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 18 yards | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bank | than half leg; deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the creek | some ten yards | wide property | tree rules |
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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