Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 67

Many went a step further, and invested these ghosts and “sperits” with the ability to intervene in mundane affairs, and to entail harm and misfortune upon those with whom they had not lived amicably while in the flesh.

Who acts: Many, ghosts · What happens: go, invest, intervene, not live · To what, where: step, ghosts, mundane affairs

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, ghosts), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 step	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	further	further	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 invested	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 invested	cc
8	invested	invest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 ghosts	det
10	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 invested	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sperits	cc
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 sperits	punct
13	sperits	sperit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ghosts	conj
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 ghosts	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 ability	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ability	det
17	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invested	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 intervene	mark
19	intervene	intervene	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ability	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 affairs	case
21	mundane	mundane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 affairs	amod
22	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 intervene	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 harm	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 harm	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	27 harm	mark
26	entail	entail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 harm	compound
27	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invested	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 misfortune	cc
29	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 harm	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 those	case
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 harm	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 those	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lived	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lived	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 lived	advmod
37	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 whom	acl:relcl
38	amicably	amicably	ADV	_	37 lived	advmod
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 flesh	mark
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 flesh	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 flesh	det
42	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Many	a step		further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	invest	past	Many not said here	this ghosts and sperits		with the ability; entail harm upon those with entail harm upon those with entail harm and misfortune and misfortune obl	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient with ability=Theme
3	intervene	to-infinitive	Many not said here		mundane affairs		tree rules
4	not live	past · perfect	ghosts = ghost			the flesh advcl; amicably property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 14, sentence 67

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 67