Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 92

Memories of Fetichism, of Totemism, and of Anthropomorphism were strangely mingled with the teachings of Christianity, and in their religious exercises the emotional predominated over the intellectual.

What happens: mingle, exercise, predominate, teach · To what, where: Memories, religious, intellectual, Christianity

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: 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	Memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mingled	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Fetichism	case
3	Fetichism	Fetichism	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Memories	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Totemism	punct
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Totemism	case
6	Totemism	Totemism	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fetichism	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mingled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mingled	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Anthropomorphism	case
10	Anthropomorphism	Anthropomorphism	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mingled	obl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mingled	aux:pass
12	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	13 mingled	advmod
13	mingled	mingle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 teachings	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teachings	det
16	teachings	teaching	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mingled	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Christianity	case
18	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 teachings	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 exercises	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 exercises	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 religious	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 religious	nmod:poss
23	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 exercises	obl
24	exercises	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mingled	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 emotional	det
26	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 exercises	xcomp
27	predominated	predominate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 emotional	acl
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 intellectual	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 intellectual	det
30	intellectual	intellectual	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 predominated	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 mingled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mingle	past · passive	Memories of Fetichism and Totemism		of Anthropomorphism; with the teachings of Christianity; strangely property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with teaching=Co-Patient
2	exercise	present		memories's religious	emotional property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	predominate	participle		the intellectual		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over intellectual=Location
4	teach		Christianity			nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient

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 92

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 92