Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 84
A negro lad, Cæsar by name, had been deputed to cook for him, to wait upon him, and to minister to his needs.
Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: depute, cook, wait, need · To what, where: negro lad
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | negro | negro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deputed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cæsar | punct |
| 5 | Cæsar | Cæsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | appos |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Cæsar | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lad | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 deputed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 deputed | aux:pass |
| 11 | deputed | depute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cook | mark |
| 13 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 deputed | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cook | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wait | mark |
| 18 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cook | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wait | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 minister | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 minister | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 minister | mark |
| 24 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deputed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 needs | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 needs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 minister | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 deputed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depute | past · perfect · passive | a negro lad | minister to Jupiter's needs obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook | to-infinitive | for Jupiter | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | upon Jupiter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||||
| 4 | need | Jupiter | nom need «state 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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