Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 66

These notions of July may be accepted as typifying the belief on this subject entertained by the great majority of the negroes on the coast.

What happens: accept, typify, entertain · To what, where: notions, belief, subject

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 notions	det
2	notions	notion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 accepted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 July	case
4	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 notions	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 accepted	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 accepted	aux:pass
7	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 typifying	mark
9	typifying	typify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 accepted	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 belief	det
11	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 typifying	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 subject	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 subject	det
14	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belief	nmod
15	entertained	entertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 subject	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 majority	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 majority	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 majority	amod
19	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entertained	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 negroes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 negroes	det
22	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 majority	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 coast	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coast	det
25	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 negroes	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accept	may · passive	this notions of July			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	typify	gerund	the belief	this subject		tree rules
3	entertain	participle	this subject not said here		by the great majority of the negroes on the coast	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 14, sentence 66

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 66