Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 86
For an hour and more he entertained me, as was his wont, with tales of the olden time, and was evidently in excellent spirits.
Who acts: man, olden time · What happens: entertain, be, tell · To what, where: me, excellent spirits · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (man, olden time), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entertained | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 hour | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entertained | nsubj |
| 7 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 entertained | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wont | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 wont | mark |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wont | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wont | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 entertained | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tales | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tales | case |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wont | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spirits | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spirits | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 spirits | cop |
| 24 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 27 spirits | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 spirits | case |
| 26 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spirits | amod |
| 27 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 entertained | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entertain | past | man | me | hour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | man nmod:poss; tales of the olden time conj; wont property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | excellent spirits | evidently property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell | the olden time | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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