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title: Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to publ… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia. Who acts: Joel. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its depende
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 16

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Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia.

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**Who acts:** Joel · **What happens:** have, commend · **To what, where:** admirable way

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joel), 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:pg76586:1:16
# text = Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Joel	Joel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Chandler	Chandler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	commended	commend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	vogue	vogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Joel  Mr. |  |  | a admirable way |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **commend** | participle |  | a admirable way *not said here* |  |  |  | to public notice; among the Negroes of Middle Georgia | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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