Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 91

Comparatively few there were who could lift themselves entirely above the superstitious fears born in Africa and perpetuated by tradition in their new home.

Who acts: few · What happens: be, lift, bear, perpetuate · To what, where: belief, superstitious fears, Africa

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 (few), 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	Comparatively	comparatively	ADV	_	2 few	advmod
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lift	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 few	cop
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lift	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lift	aux
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 lift	obj
9	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 lift	advmod
10	above	above	ADP	_	13 fears	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fears	det
12	superstitious	superstitious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fears	amod
13	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lift	obl
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fears	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Africa	case
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 born	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 perpetuated	cc
18	perpetuated	perpetuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 born	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 tradition	case
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perpetuated	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 home	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 home	nmod:poss
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 home	amod
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tradition	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				comparatively, few property	tree rules
2	lift	could	few	belief	the superstitious fears	who nsubj; entirely property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme above fear=Destination
3	bear	participle		the superstitious fears not said here	Africa		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	perpetuate	participle				by tradition in belief's new home	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 91