Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 29
For the cure of rheumatism its oil was held in special repute, and the exuded musk was collected for medicinal uses.
Who acts: medicinal · What happens: hold, exude, collect, use · To what, where: oil, special repute, exuded musk
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 (medicinal), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 cure | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cure | det |
| 3 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rheumatism | case |
| 5 | rheumatism | rheumatism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cure | nmod |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 oil | nmod:poss |
| 7 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 repute | case |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 repute | amod |
| 12 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 collected | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 collected | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 musk | det |
| 16 | exuded | exude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 musk | amod |
| 17 | musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 collected | aux:pass |
| 19 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 held | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 uses | mark |
| 21 | medicinal | medicinal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 uses | nsubj |
| 22 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 collected | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | rheumatism's oil | special repute | for the cure of rheumatism | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in repute=Location | |||
| 2 | exude | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | collect | past · passive | the exuded musk | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | use | present | medicinal | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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