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title: He was fond of his chickens and pigs, and cultivated on his own acco… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was fond of his chickens and pigs, and cultivated on his own account a small patch where arrowroot, long collards, sugar-cane, tanniers, ground-nuts, benne, gourds, and watermelons grew in commingled luxuriance. Who acts: DADDY, watermelons. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 76

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He was fond of his chickens and pigs, and cultivated on his own account a small patch where arrowroot, long collards, sugar-cane, tanniers, ground-nuts, benne, gourds, and watermelons grew in commingled luxuriance.

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**Who acts:** DADDY, watermelons · **What happens:** be, cultivate, grow, commingle, account · **To what, where:** small patch, own account, commingled luxuriance

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DADDY, watermelons), 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:pg76586:14:76
# text = He was fond of his chickens and pigs, and cultivated on his own account a small patch where arrowroot, long collards, sugar-cane, tanniers, ground-nuts, benne, gourds, and watermelons grew in commingled luxuriance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	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	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
20	arrowroot	arrowroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	collards	collard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tanniers	tannier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	benne	benne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	gourds	gourd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	watermelons	watermelon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	commingled	commingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | DADDY |  |  |  |  | of DADDY's chickens and pigs; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cultivate** | participle | DADDY *not said here* | a small patch |  | DADDY's own account |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | past | watermelons |  |  | commingled luxuriance |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxuriance=Location |
| 4 | **commingle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **account** |  | DADDY |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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