Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

Instead of getting out upon the bank, which he could readily have done, he paused, and began to parley with what, in the darkness, he conceived to be a “sperit.”

Who acts: middle · What happens: get out, do, pause, begin, conceive, be · To what, where: bank, parley, sperit · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (middle), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 getting	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 paused	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 getting	compound:prt
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 done	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
12	readily	readily	ADV	_	14 done	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bank	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 paused	nsubj
17	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paused	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 parley	mark
22	parley	parley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 what	case
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 parley	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 darkness	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 darkness	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 darkness	det
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 what	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 conceived	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 conceived	nsubj
31	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paused	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	36 sperit	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sperit	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sperit	det
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 sperit	punct
36	sperit	sperit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 conceived	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 paused	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get out	gerund	middle not said here		upon the bank	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	could · perfect	middle	the bank	readily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
3	pause	past	middle			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	middle not said here	parley		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	conceive	past	middle			vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	middle not said here	a sperit		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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 71