Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 76
He was fond of his chickens and pigs, and cultivated on his own account a small patch where arrowroot, long collards, sugar-cane, tanniers, ground-nuts, benne, gourds, and watermelons grew in commingled luxuriance.
Who acts: DADDY, watermelons · What happens: be, cultivate, grow, commingle, account · To what, where: small patch, own account, commingled luxuriance
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, watermelons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fond | cop |
| 3 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chickens | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fond | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pigs | cc |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chickens | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cultivated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cultivated | cc |
| 11 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fond | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 account | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 account | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 account | amod |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cultivated | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 patch | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 patch | amod |
| 18 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cultivated | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 patch | nmod |
| 20 | arrowroot | arrowroot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 where | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 collards | punct |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 collards | amod |
| 23 | collards | collard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cane | punct |
| 25 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cane | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sugar | punct |
| 27 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tanniers | punct |
| 29 | tanniers | tannier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nuts | punct |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nuts | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 ground | punct |
| 33 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 benne | punct |
| 35 | benne | benne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gourds | punct |
| 37 | gourds | gourd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arrowroot | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 grew | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 grew | cc |
| 40 | watermelons | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 grew | nsubj |
| 41 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fond | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 luxuriance | case |
| 43 | commingled | commingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 luxuriance | amod |
| 44 | luxuriance | luxuriance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grew | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | DADDY | of DADDY's chickens and pigs; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cultivate | participle | DADDY not said here | a small patch | DADDY's own account | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Product | |||
| 3 | grow | past | watermelons | commingled luxuriance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxuriance=Location | ||||
| 4 | commingle | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | account | DADDY | nom account «communication transitive»: 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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