Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 78

At the “Praise-House” his seat was never vacant when his health permitted him to be present, and he filled the office of a “watchman” upon the plantation.

Who acts: seat, health, DADDY · What happens: not be, permit, be, fill · To what, where: Praise House, DADDY, office

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 (seat, health, DADDY), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 House	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 House	det
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 House	punct
4	Praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 House	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Praise	punct
6	House	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vacant	obl
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 House	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 seat	nmod:poss
9	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vacant	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vacant	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 vacant	advmod
12	vacant	vacant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 permitted	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 health	nmod:poss
15	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 permitted	nsubj
16	permitted	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vacant	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 permitted	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 present	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 present	cop
20	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 permitted	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 filled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 filled	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 filled	nsubj
24	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vacant	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 office	det
26	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 watchman	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 watchman	det
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 watchman	punct
30	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 office	nmod
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 watchman	punct
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 plantation	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plantation	det
34	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 vacant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	DADDY's seat		the Praise House	vacant property	tree rules
2	permit	past	DADDY's health	DADDY			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	DADDY's health not said here			present property	tree rules
4	fill	past	DADDY	the office of a watchman		upon the plantation	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent office=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 14, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 78