Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 77
Sawney had so completely lost his wits, was so terrified, and was suffering so much pain, that he neglected to improve the opportunity thus afforded, and betake himself to flight.
Who acts: wits, Sawney · What happens: lose, be, suffer, neglect, not improve, afford · To what, where: Sawney, much pain, opportunity
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 (wits, 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 | Sawney | Sawney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 terrified | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 terrified | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wits | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 terrified | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 terrified | advmod |
| 11 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffering | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suffering | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffering | aux |
| 15 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 terrified | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pain | amod |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffering | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 neglected | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 neglected | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 neglected | nsubj |
| 22 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 terrified | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 improve | mark |
| 24 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 neglected | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 opportunity | det |
| 26 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 improve | obj |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 afforded | advmod |
| 28 | afforded | afford | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 opportunity | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 betake | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 betake | cc |
| 31 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 improve | conj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 betake | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 flight | case |
| 34 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 betake | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | Sawney | completely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Sawney's wits | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suffer | past · progressive | Sawney's wits not said here | much pain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | neglect | past | Sawney | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not improve | to-infinitive | Sawney not said here | the opportunity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 6 | afford | participle | the opportunity not said here | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | betake | infinitive | Sawney not said here | Sawney | to flight | 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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