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title: He was confined to his cabin for quite three months, and, during tha… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was confined to his cabin for quite three months, and, during that time, required and received the careful attention of a competent surgeon. Who acts: competent surgeon. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 84

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He was confined to his cabin for quite three months, and, during that time, required and received the careful attention of a competent surgeon.

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**Who acts:** competent surgeon · **What happens:** confine, require, receive, attend · **To what, where:** Sawney, cabin, careful attention

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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 (competent surgeon), 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:pg76586:13:84
# text = He was confined to his cabin for quite three months, and, during that time, required and received the careful attention of a competent surgeon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	competent	competent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | past · passive |  | Sawney |  | Sawney's cabin | month |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cabin=Destination |
| 2 | **require** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past |  | the careful attention of a competent surgeon |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme |
| 4 | **attend** |  | a competent surgeon |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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