Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 42
For this purpose the combined strength of several stalwart men barely sufficed.
Who acts: combined strength · What happens: combine, suffice
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 (combined strength), 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 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sufficed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strength | det |
| 5 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strength | amod |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sufficed | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 9 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | compound |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strength | nmod |
| 11 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 12 sufficed | advmod |
| 12 | sufficed | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sufficed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | suffice | past | the combined strength of several stalwart men | for this purpose; barely property | tree rules |
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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