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title: For this purpose the combined strength of several stalwart men barel… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For this purpose the combined strength of several stalwart men barely sufficed. Who acts: combined strength. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 42

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For this purpose the combined strength of several stalwart men barely sufficed.

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**Who acts:** combined strength · **What happens:** combine, suffice

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (combined strength), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:13:42
# text = For this purpose the combined strength of several stalwart men barely sufficed.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sufficed	suffice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **suffice** | past | the combined strength of several stalwart men |  |  |  |  | for this purpose; barely *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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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