Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 124

His wish was gratified, and the plantation was notified that he now possessed instruments with which teeth might be extracted readily and with the least amount of pain.

Who acts: ingenuity · What happens: gratify, notify, possess, extract, wish, amount · To what, where: wish, plantation, instruments, teeth, pain

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 (ingenuity), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wish	nmod:poss
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gratified	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gratified	aux:pass
4	gratified	gratify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 notified	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 notified	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plantation	det
8	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 notified	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 notified	aux:pass
10	notified	notify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gratified	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 possessed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 possessed	nsubj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 possessed	advmod
14	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 notified	advcl
15	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 possessed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 extracted	obl
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 extracted	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 extracted	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 extracted	aux:pass
21	extracted	extract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 instruments	acl:relcl
22	readily	readily	ADV	_	27 amount	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 amount	cc
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 amount	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 amount	det
26	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 amount	amod
27	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 extracted	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 pain	case
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 amount	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gratified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gratify	past · passive		ingenuity's wish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	notify speech: other	past · passive		the plantation			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	possess	past	ingenuity	instruments	now		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot instrument=Theme
4	extract	might · passive		teeth		with instruments; the least amount of pain obj	tree rules
5	wish		ingenuity				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	amount			pain			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 124