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title: He was indeed prepared, and early in the spring we laid him to rest… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was indeed prepared, and early in the spring we laid him to rest beneath the venerable live-oaks which, with their solemn arms, guarded the plantation burying-ground. Who acts: we, solemn arms, plantation. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., J
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 7

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He was indeed prepared, and early in the spring we laid him to rest beneath the venerable live-oaks which, with their solemn arms, guarded the plantation burying-ground.

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**Who acts:** we, solemn arms, plantation · **What happens:** prepare, lay, rest, guard, bury · **To what, where:** Mossa, venerable live oaks, ground

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, solemn arms, plantation), 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:pg76586:15:7
# text = He was indeed prepared, and early in the spring we laid him to rest beneath the venerable live-oaks which, with their solemn arms, guarded the plantation burying-ground.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	live	live	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	burying	bury	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · passive |  | Mossa |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | past | we | Mossa |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | the venerable live oaks |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath oak=Location |
| 4 | **guard** | past | oaks's solemn arms | the venerable live oaks |  |  |  | the plantation *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bury** | gerund | the plantation *not said here* | ground |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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