Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 24
_Obersheer_, overseer _Offer_, off of _Ole_, old _Ooman_, woman, women _Out_, to go out, to extinguish _Outer_, out of
What happens: go out, extinguish · To what, where: Outer, Obersheer
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 Obersheer | punct |
| 2 | Obersheer | Obersheer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Obersheer | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overseer | punct |
| 5 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Obersheer | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Offer | punct |
| 7 | Offer | offer | X | _ | 2 Obersheer | acl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Offer | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ole | punct |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 Ole | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 off | fixed |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ole | punct |
| 13 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Obersheer | parataxis |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ole | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Obersheer | amod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ooman | punct |
| 18 | Ooman | Ooman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Obersheer | conj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Obersheer | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 woman | punct |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Obersheer | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 women | punct |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Obersheer | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Out | punct |
| 25 | Out | outstanding | ADJ | Degree=Pos Typo=Yes | 2 Obersheer | parataxis |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Out | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Obersheer | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 extinguish | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 extinguish | mark |
| 33 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | conj |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Outer | punct |
| 35 | Outer | outer | X | _ | 33 extinguish | obj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Outer | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 out | punct |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 out | fixed |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | to-infinitive | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | extinguish | to-infinitive | Outer | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent outer=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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