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title: On these journeys he would carry a bag containing provisions and suc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: On these journeys he would carry a bag containing provisions and such choice morsels as he had been able, during the week, to accumulate for his better half. Who acts: Sawney, bag. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 63

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On these journeys he would carry a bag containing provisions and such choice morsels as he had been able, during the week, to accumulate for his better half.

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**Who acts:** Sawney, bag · **What happens:** carry, contain, be, accumulate · **To what, where:** bag, journeys, provisions

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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 (Sawney, bag), 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:pg76586:13:63
# text = On these journeys he would carry a bag containing provisions and such choice morsels as he had been able, during the week, to accumulate for his better half.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	accumulate	accumulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | would | Sawney | a bag |  | this journeys |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | a bag *not said here* | provisions and such choice morsels |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot provision=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Sawney |  |  |  | week | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **accumulate** | to-infinitive | Sawney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Sawney's better half | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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