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title: In confirmation of this suggestion we record the following Negro Myt… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In confirmation of this suggestion we record the following Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 20

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In confirmation of this suggestion we record the following Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** record, follow, confirm · **To what, where:** Negro Myths, confirmation, suggestion

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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 (we), 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:pg76586:1:20
# text = In confirmation of this suggestion we record the following Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	record	record	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	case	_	_
10	Negro	Negro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | present | we | the Negro Myths |  | confirmation of this suggestion |  | from the Georgia Coast | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myths=Theme in confirmation=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confirm** |  |  | this suggestion |  |  |  |  | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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