Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

_Rale_, very truly, really _Range_, reins _Rastle_, to wrestle _Retch_, to reach, to arrive at _Ribber_, river _Riz_, rose _Roose_, roost

Who acts: Rale · What happens: wrestle, retch, reach, arrive, rise · To what, where: Ribber, Roose

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 (Rale), 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 Rale	punct
2	Rale	Rale	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 rose	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Rale	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reins	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 truly	advmod
6	truly	truly	ADV	_	13 reins	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reins	punct
8	really	really	ADV	_	13 reins	advmod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 reins	punct
10	Range	Range	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reins	compound
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Range	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reins	punct
13	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Rale	conj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Rastle	punct
15	Rastle	Rastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reins	appos
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Rastle	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrestle	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wrestle	mark
19	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Rale	parataxis
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Retch	punct
21	Retch	retch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 wrestle	conj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 Retch	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reach	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 reach	mark
25	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 wrestle	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrive	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 arrive	mark
28	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 wrestle	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 Ribber	case
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 at	punct
31	Ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arrive	obl
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 arrive	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 river	punct
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rale	appos
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Rale	punct
36	Riz	Riz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rale	flat
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Rale	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Rale	punct
39	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 Roose	punct
41	Roose	Roose	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 rose	obl
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 Roose	punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 roost	punct
44	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Roose	appos

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wrestle	to-infinitive				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	retch	infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reach	to-infinitive				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	arrive	to-infinitive			Ribber	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rise	past	Rale and Range reins	Roose		vn assuming_position-50 «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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 27