Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 83

For weeks together he ventured no further than the door of his cabin, where he would sit and sun himself and smoke his clay pipe.

Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: venture, sit, smoke · To what, where: Jupiter, clay pipe

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 (Jupiter), 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	_	2 weeks	case
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ventured	obl
3	together	together	ADV	_	5 ventured	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ventured	nsubj
5	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 further	advmod
7	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 door	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 cabin	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cabin	nmod:poss
13	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sit	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sit	aux
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ventured	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sun	cc
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 sit	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smoke	cc
23	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sit	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pipe	nmod:poss
25	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pipe	compound
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 smoke	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	venture	past	Jupiter		week	together property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	sit	would	Jupiter	Jupiter		than the door of Jupiter's cabin; sun conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smoke	infinitive	Jupiter not said here	Jupiter's clay pipe			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 83