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title: Jazz and blues grew among African American communities, mixing Afric… — What was lost and what was gained: languages, fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jazz and blues grew among African American communities, mixing African rhythms with European instruments; reggae and hip-hop also came from such mixing. Who acts: Jazz, reggae. A sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» of the history course o
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# What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge, sentence 8

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Jazz and blues grew among African American communities, mixing African rhythms with European instruments; reggae and hip-hop also came from such mixing.

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**Who acts:** Jazz, reggae · **What happens:** grow, mix, come · **To what, where:** African American communities, African rhythms, such mixing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jazz, reggae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:8
# text = Jazz and blues grew among African American communities, mixing African rhythms with European instruments; reggae and hip-hop also came from such mixing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jazz	Jazz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rhythms	rhythm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	reggae	reggae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mixing	mixing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Jazz and blues |  |  | African American communities |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among community=Location |
| 2 | **mix** | gerund | Jazz and blues *not said here* | African rhythms |  |  |  | with European instruments | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rhythm=Patient with instrument=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | reggae and hip hop |  |  | such mixing |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mixing=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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