Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 8
Then, not in a vision, but in reality, as we believe, the good old man claimed and was accorded his seat in the “mansion not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.”
Who acts: we, good old man · What happens: believe, claim, accord, not make · To what, where: reality, seat, mansion, vision · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, good old man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 vision | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vision | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 vision | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vision | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vision | det |
| 6 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 claimed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 claimed | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 reality | case |
| 10 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 claimed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 believe | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reality | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reality | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 claimed | nsubj |
| 20 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vision | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 accorded | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 accorded | aux:pass |
| 23 | accorded | accord | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 claimed | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 seat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accorded | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 mansion | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mansion | det |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 mansion | punct |
| 29 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accorded | obl |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 made | advmod |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 mansion | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 hands | case |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 eternal | punct |
| 35 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mansion | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Heavens | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Heavens | det |
| 38 | Heavens | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 eternal | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vision | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 vision | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | we | reality not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reality=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past | the good old man | reality | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accord | past · passive | the good old man not said here | man's seat | the mansion and eternal in the Heavens | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: seat=Theme | |||
| 4 | not make in a quote | participle | the mansion and eternal in the Heavens not said here | with hands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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