Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 8
Jack endeavored, with the left hand, to keep him down, while he tugged lustily at the tooth with his right.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: endeavor, keep down, tug · To what, where: Jack
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 (Jack), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 endeavored | nsubj |
| 2 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 endeavored | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 endeavored | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 keep | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tugged | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 tugged | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tugged | nsubj |
| 16 | tugged | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 endeavored | conj |
| 17 | lustily | lustily | ADV | _ | 16 tugged | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 tooth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tooth | det |
| 20 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tugged | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 right | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 right | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tugged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 endeavored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavor | past | Jack | the left hand ccomp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep down | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tug | past | Jack | with Jack's right; at the tooth; lustily property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tooth=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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