Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 101
In the conduct of plantations, difficulty and annoyance were not infrequently experienced from the interference of these old negro women,--conjurers,--who, in plying their secret trade, gave rise to disturbances and promoted strife and disquietude.
Who acts: old negro women, women · What happens: not experience, ply, give, promote, conduct, interfere · To what, where: conduct, secret trade, rise, disturbances, strife, plantations
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old negro women, women), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 conduct | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 conduct | det |
| 3 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 experienced | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 plantations | case |
| 5 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 conduct | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 difficulty | punct |
| 7 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plantations | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 annoyance | cc |
| 9 | annoyance | annoyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plantations | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 experienced | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 experienced | advmod |
| 12 | infrequently | infrequently | ADV | _ | 13 experienced | advmod |
| 13 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 interference | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 interference | det |
| 16 | interference | interference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 experienced | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 women | nsubj |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 women | amod |
| 20 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 women | compound |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 interference | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 conjurers | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 conjurers | punct |
| 24 | conjurers | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 women | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 plying | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 plying | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 plying | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 plying | punct |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 plying | mark |
| 30 | plying | ply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 gave | advcl |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 trade | nmod:poss |
| 32 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 trade | amod |
| 33 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 plying | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gave | punct |
| 35 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 experienced | parataxis |
| 36 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gave | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 disturbances | case |
| 38 | disturbances | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 gave | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 promoted | cc |
| 40 | promoted | promote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 gave | conj |
| 41 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 promoted | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disquietude | cc |
| 43 | disquietude | disquietude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 strife | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 experienced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not experience | past · passive | the conduct of plantations and difficulty and annoyance | from the interference of old negro women these and conjurers; infrequently property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | ply | gerund | women's secret trade | who nsubj | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent trade=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | rise | disturbances | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to disturbance=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | promote | past | strife and disquietude | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strife=Theme | |||||
| 5 | conduct | plantations and difficulty and annoyance | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | interfere | old negro women these and conjurers | nom interference «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | trade | women = woman | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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