Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 26
_Quaintun_, acquainted with _Quaintance_, acquaintances _Quile_, to coil, coiled _Quire_, to inquire, inquired
Who acts: Quaintun · What happens: acquaint, coil, inquire · To what, where: Quile, coiled Quire
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 (Quaintun), 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 | _ | 5 acquainted | punct |
| 2 | Quaintun | Quaintun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 acquainted | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quaintun | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acquainted | punct |
| 5 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coil | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Quaintance | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 with | punct |
| 8 | Quaintance | Quaintance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 acquainted | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Quaintance | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 acquaintances | punct |
| 11 | acquaintances | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Quaintance | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Quile | punct |
| 13 | Quile | Quile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 acquainted | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 acquainted | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coil | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 coil | mark |
| 17 | coil | coil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coiled | punct |
| 19 | coiled | coiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Quire | amod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 coiled | punct |
| 21 | Quire | quire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coil | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 coil | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inquire | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 inquire | mark |
| 25 | inquire | inquire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 coil | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 inquired | punct |
| 27 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coil | parataxis |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | participle | Quaintun | Quile | with Quaintance and acquaintances | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | coil | to-infinitive | coiled Quire | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent quire=Material | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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