Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Days of the Week, sentence 4
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the story in which the anchor occurs.
Who acts: anchor · What happens: renumber, move, occur · To what, where: Footnotes, end, story
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anchor), 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 | Footnotes | footnote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 renumbered | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 renumbered | aux:pass |
| 3 | renumbered | renumber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | sequentially | sequentially | ADV | _ | 3 renumbered | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moved | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 renumbered | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 occurs | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 anchor | det |
| 17 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 occurs | nsubj |
| 18 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 story | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 renumbered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renumber | past · passive | Footnotes | sequentially property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | past · passive | to the end of the story | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: to end=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | occur | present | the anchor | the story | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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