Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 84
He was confined to his cabin for quite three months, and, during that time, required and received the careful attention of a competent surgeon.
Who acts: competent surgeon · What happens: confine, require, receive, attend · To what, where: Sawney, cabin, careful attention
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 (competent surgeon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confined | aux:pass |
| 3 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cabin | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confined | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 three | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 confined | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 required | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 required | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 required | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 18 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confined | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 received | cc |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 required | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attention | det |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 attention | amod |
| 23 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 surgeon | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 surgeon | det |
| 26 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 surgeon | amod |
| 27 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attention | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | past · passive | Sawney | Sawney's cabin | month | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cabin=Destination | |||
| 2 | require | past | time | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | receive | past | the careful attention of a competent surgeon | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attend | a competent surgeon | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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