Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 7

He was indeed prepared, and early in the spring we laid him to rest beneath the venerable live-oaks which, with their solemn arms, guarded the plantation burying-ground.

Who acts: we, solemn arms, plantation · What happens: prepare, lay, rest, guard, bury · To what, where: Mossa, venerable live oaks, ground

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, solemn arms, plantation), 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	4 prepared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prepared	aux:pass
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 prepared	advmod
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 early	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 early	cc
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prepared	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 early	obl
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 laid	nsubj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spring	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 laid	advcl
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 oaks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oaks	det
18	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 oaks	amod
19	live	live	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 oaks	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
21	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rest	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 guarded	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arms	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 arms	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
26	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 arms	amod
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 guarded	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arms	punct
29	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 oaks	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plantation	det
31	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 guarded	obj
32	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 plantation	acl
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ground	punct
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · passive		Mossa		indeed property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lay	past	we	Mossa			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	rest	to-infinitive	we not said here		the venerable live oaks		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath oak=Location
4	guard	past	oaks's solemn arms	the venerable live oaks		the plantation obj	tree rules
5	bury	gerund	the plantation not said here	ground			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 7