Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

When he was in the middle of the stream his attention was attracted by a movement in the water.

Who acts: tide, movement · What happens: be, attract, attend · To what, where: middle

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 (tide, movement), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 middle	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 middle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 middle	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attracted	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 attention	nmod:poss
11	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attracted	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 attracted	aux:pass
13	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 movement	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 movement	det
16	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attracted	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 movement	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	tide		the middle	of the stream	tree rules
2	attract	past · passive	a movement in the water	the middle		tide's attention nsubj:pass	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	attend		tide				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 70