Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 95

The idea was by such means to conjure the neighbor against whom enmity was cherished, and thus subject him or her to the malign influences of the spirit or demon whose power was supposed to inhere in the evil charm.

Who acts: idea · What happens: be, conjure, cherish, subject, suppose, inhere · To what, where: neighbor, enmity, fabrication, power, evil charm

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 (idea), 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 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	cop
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 means	mark
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 conjure	mark
8	conjure	conjure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neighbor	det
10	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conjure	obj
11	against	against	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 neighbor	nmod
13	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cherished	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cherished	aux:pass
15	cherished	cherish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 whom	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 subject	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 subject	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 subject	advmod
19	subject	subject	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 subject	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 her	cc
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 him	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 influences	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 influences	det
25	malign	malign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 influences	amod
26	influences	influence	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 subject	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 spirit	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spirit	det
29	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 influences	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 demon	cc
31	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spirit	conj
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 power	nmod:poss
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 supposed	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 supposed	aux:pass
35	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 demon	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 inhere	mark
37	inhere	inhere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 supposed	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 charm	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 charm	det
40	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 charm	amod
41	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 inhere	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the idea			mean property	tree rules
2	conjure not said to happen	to-infinitive	the idea not said here	the neighbor			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Result
3	cherish	past · passive		enmity			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	subject	infinitive	the idea not said here	fabrication		to the malign influences of the spirit or demon; thus property	tree rules
5	suppose	past · passive		power			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
6	inhere	to-infinitive			the evil charm		tree rules

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 95