Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 89
My curiosity being excited, I resumed my seat, and inquired: “Daddy, is that true?
Who acts: curiosity, I · What happens: be, resume, inquire · To what, where: seat, Daddy · 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 (curiosity, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 2 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excited | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 excited | cop |
| 4 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 resumed | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 resumed | nsubj |
| 7 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 excited | parataxis |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resumed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 inquired | cc |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 resumed | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Daddy | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Daddy | punct |
| 15 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 true | mark |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 excited | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | My curiosity | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resume | past | I | my seat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | I not said here | Daddy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | My curiosity not said here | true property | tree rules |
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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