Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 20
_Ketch_, catch, reach to, approach _Kibber_, cover _Kine_, kind _Knowledge_, acknowledge, admit
What happens: catch, reach, approach, cover, acknowledge, admit · To what, where: Kibber, Kine, Ketch
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: 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 Ketch | punct |
| 2 | Ketch | Ketch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ketch | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 reach | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 approach | punct |
| 10 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | conj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kibber | punct |
| 12 | Kibber | Kibber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 approach | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kibber | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cover | punct |
| 15 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kine | punct |
| 17 | Kine | Kine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | obj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kine | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kind | punct |
| 20 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ketch | parataxis |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Knowledge | punct |
| 22 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 kind | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 acknowledge | punct |
| 25 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ketch | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 admit | punct |
| 27 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 acknowledge | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reach | infinitive | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | approach | infinitive | Kibber | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kibber=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | infinitive | Kine | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kine=Destination | |||||
| 5 | acknowledge | infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | admit speech: other | infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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