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title: The patriarch, with its attendant consort and progeny, there reigned… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The patriarch, with its attendant consort and progeny, there reigned supreme, unless, after severe battle, it was driven away by one more powerful. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 48

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The patriarch, with its attendant consort and progeny, there reigned supreme, unless, after severe battle, it was driven away by one more powerful.

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**What happens:** reign, drive away · **To what, where:** ALLIGATOR, patriarch

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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: 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:pg76586:13:48
# text = The patriarch, with its attendant consort and progeny, there reigned supreme, unless, after severe battle, it was driven away by one more powerful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	patriarch	patriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	progeny	progeny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
13	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | participle |  |  |  | there |  | supreme *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | ALLIGATOR |  |  | after severe battle | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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