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title: For weeks together he ventured no further than the door of his cabin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For weeks together he ventured no further than the door of his cabin, where he would sit and sun himself and smoke his clay pipe. Who acts: Jupiter. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 83

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For weeks together he ventured no further than the door of his cabin, where he would sit and sun himself and smoke his clay pipe.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter · **What happens:** venture, sit, smoke · **To what, where:** Jupiter, clay pipe

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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 (Jupiter), 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:pg76586:14:83
# text = For weeks together he ventured no further than the door of his cabin, where he would sit and sun himself and smoke his clay pipe.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | past | Jupiter |  |  |  | week | together *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | would | Jupiter | Jupiter |  |  |  | than the door of Jupiter's cabin; sun *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smoke** | infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Jupiter's clay pipe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

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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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