Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 71
Dreams are intimately associated with the lower forms of religion....
What happens: associate, form · To what, where: Dreams, religion
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 | Dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 associated | aux:pass |
| 3 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 4 associated | advmod |
| 4 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 forms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forms | det |
| 7 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 forms | amod |
| 8 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 associated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 religion | case |
| 10 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forms | nmod |
| 11 | .... | .... | PUNCT | _ | 4 associated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | associate | present · passive | Dreams | with the lower forms of religion; intimately property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with form=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | form | religion | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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