Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 30
_Up ter de notch_, in the best style _Usen_, to be in the habit of
What happens: be · To what, where: habit, ter de notch
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 | _ | 5 notch | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ter | case |
| 3 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notch | compound |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 notch | compound |
| 5 | notch | notch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 notch | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 style | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 style | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 style | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 style | amod |
| 11 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notch | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Usen | punct |
| 13 | Usen | Usen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notch | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Usen | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 habit | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 habit | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 habit | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 habit | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 habit | det |
| 20 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notch | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 habit | case |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | the habit | tree rules |
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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