Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 75
For many years prior to his death he was practically “off duty,” keeping in-doors whenever he did not feel entirely well, and in pleasant weather working in the vegetable garden.
Who acts: DADDY, duty, pleasant weather · What happens: be, keep, not feel, work, die · To what, where: doors
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 (DADDY, duty, pleasant weather), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 duty | obl |
| 4 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 death | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 prior | fixed |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duty | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 duty | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 duty | cop |
| 10 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 13 duty | advmod |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 duty | punct |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 duty | case |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 duty | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 duty | punct |
| 16 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 duty | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 doors | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keeping | obl |
| 20 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 feel | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feel | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 feel | advmod |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keeping | advcl |
| 25 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 24 feel | advmod |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 entirely | fixed |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 weather | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 weather | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 weather | case |
| 30 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 weather | amod |
| 31 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duty | conj |
| 32 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 weather | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 garden | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 garden | det |
| 35 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 garden | compound |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 working | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | DADDY | year | off duty and pleasant weather; prior DADDY's death; pleasant weather conj; practically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | duty and pleasant weather not said here | doors | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location | ||||
| 3 | not feel | past · do-support | DADDY | entirely, whenever property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | work | gerund | pleasant weather not said here | in the vegetable garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | DADDY | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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