Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 31
_Vise_, to advise _Vive_, revive
What happens: advise, revive · To what, where: Vive, Vise
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 Vise | punct |
| 2 | Vise | vise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 advise | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 advise | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 advise | mark |
| 6 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Vise | parataxis |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Vive | punct |
| 8 | Vive | Vive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 advise | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Vive | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 revive | punct |
| 11 | revive | revive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 advise | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | Vive | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vive=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | revive | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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