Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 62

It was his habit to visit his wife every Saturday night, and remain with her until Monday morning.

Who acts: plantation · What happens: be, visit, remain · To what, where: habit, wife

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 (plantation), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 habit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 habit	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 habit	nmod:poss
4	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 visit	mark
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 habit	acl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
10	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 night	compound
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remain	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remain	cc
14	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 habit	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remain	obl
17	until	until	ADP	_	19 morning	case
18	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 morning	compound
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remain	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	plantation	Sawney's habit		Sawney nmod:poss	tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive		Sawney's wife	night		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent
3	remain	present	plantation not said here		morning	with wife	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 13, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 62