Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 111

Among other duties devolved upon him was the general supervision of the plantation infirmary where the sick were carefully nursed and supplied with medicine and suitable food.

Who acts: intervention · What happens: devolve, be, nurse, supply · To what, where: sick

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intervention), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 duties	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duties	amod
3	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 devolved	obl
4	devolved	devolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 supervision	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 supervision	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 supervision	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 supervision	det
9	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 supervision	amod
10	supervision	supervision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devolved	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 infirmary	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 infirmary	det
13	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 infirmary	compound
14	infirmary	infirmary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supervision	nmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 nursed	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sick	det
17	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nursed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nursed	aux:pass
19	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	20 nursed	advmod
20	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 infirmary	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 supplied	cc
22	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 nursed	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 medicine	case
24	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 supplied	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 food	cc
26	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 food	amod
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 medicine	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 devolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	devolve	past			among other duties	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	intervention		upon the general supervision; of the plantation infirmary	tree rules
3	nurse	past · passive		the sick	carefully property	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	supply	participle			with medicine and suitable food	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Theme

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 12, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 111