Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 96
The ordinary Fetich consisted of a bunch of rusty nails, bits of red flannel, and pieces of brier-root tied together with a cotton string.
Who acts: ordinary Fetich · What happens: consist, tie · To what, where: pieces, brier root
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 (ordinary Fetich), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fetich | det |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fetich | amod |
| 3 | Fetich | Fetich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | nsubj |
| 4 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bunch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bunch | det |
| 7 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nails | case |
| 9 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nails | amod |
| 10 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bunch | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bits | punct |
| 12 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nails | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flannel | case |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flannel | amod |
| 15 | flannel | flannel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bits | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pieces | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pieces | cc |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consisted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 root | case |
| 20 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 root | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 brier | punct |
| 22 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pieces | nmod |
| 23 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 root | acl |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 tied | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 string | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 string | det |
| 27 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 string | compound |
| 28 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tied | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the ordinary Fetich | pieces of brier root | of a bunch of rusty nails | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tie | participle | brier root not said here | with a cotton string; together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
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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