Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 93

The potency of charms and philters was freely admitted, and it was necessary to restrain the practice of Fetichism by positive inhibition, or by labored persuasion of its utter absurdity.

What happens: admit, be, restrain, labor, practice, persuade · To what, where: potency, practice, Fetichism, utter absurdity

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 potency	det
2	potency	potency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 admitted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 charms	case
4	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 potency	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 philters	cc
6	philters	philter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charms	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 admitted	aux:pass
8	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 admitted	advmod
9	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 necessary	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 necessary	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 necessary	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 necessary	cop
14	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 admitted	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 restrain	mark
16	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 necessary	csubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 practice	det
18	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restrain	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Fetichism	case
20	Fetichism	Fetichism	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 practice	nmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 inhibition	case
22	positive	positive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 inhibition	amod
23	inhibition	inhibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restrain	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 persuasion	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 persuasion	cc
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 persuasion	case
27	labored	labor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 persuasion	amod
28	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restrain	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 absurdity	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 absurdity	nmod:poss
31	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 absurdity	amod
32	absurdity	absurdity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 persuasion	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past · passive	the potency of charms and philters	freely property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past		necessary property	tree rules
3	restrain	to-infinitive	the practice of Fetichism	by positive inhibition; by labored persuasion of potency's utter absurdity	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer practice=Eventuality
4	labor	participle			vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	practice		Fetichism		nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient
6	persuade		potency's utter absurdity		nom persuasion «communication 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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 93