Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 10
_Abnue_, avenue _Agg_, egg _All ob er sutten_, quickly and unexpectedly _An_, and _Arter_, after _Arur_, each, either _Ax_, ask
Who acts: Arur · What happens: ask · To what, where: Arter, Abnue
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arur), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 2 | Abnue | Abnue | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 avenue | punct |
| 5 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 7 | Agg | Agg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | flat |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 egg | punct |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 12 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 ob | det |
| 13 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | appos |
| 14 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 sutten | advmod |
| 15 | sutten | sutten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ob | amod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abnue | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quickly | punct |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Abnue | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 unexpectedly | cc |
| 20 | unexpectedly | unexpectedly | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | conj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 _ | punct |
| 22 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 _ | det |
| 23 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Arter | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Arter | cc |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Arter | punct |
| 27 | Arter | Arter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abnue | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Arter | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Arter | punct |
| 30 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 42 ask | mark |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 ask | punct |
| 32 | Arur | Arur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 ask | nsubj |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Arur | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ax | punct |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 Ax | det |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ax | punct |
| 37 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 39 Ax | cc:preconj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ax | punct |
| 39 | Ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Arur | appos |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ax | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Arur | punct |
| 42 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Arter | acl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Arur | Arter not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arter=Recipient |
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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