Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 97
A toad’s foot, a snake’s tooth, a rabbit’s tail, or a snail’s shell was sometimes added.
What happens: add · To what, where: shell, foot
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 toad | det |
| 2 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 toad | case |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tooth | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 snake | case |
| 9 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tail | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rabbit | det |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 rabbit | case |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 added | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snail | det |
| 18 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shell | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 snail | case |
| 20 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 added | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 added | aux:pass |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 added | advmod |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 foot | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | a snail's shell | sometimes property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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