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title: [2] This and two preceding _Myths_ first published in Augusta, Ga.,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 255

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\[2\] This and two preceding \_Myths\_ first published in Augusta, Ga., \_Chronicle and Constitutionalist\_ of March 11, 1883.

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**What happens:** precede, publish · **To what, where:** Myths, Augusta, two

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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: 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:pg76586:1:255
# text = [2] This and two preceding _Myths_ first published in Augusta, Ga., _Chronicle and Constitutionalist_ of March 11, 1883.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Ga	Ga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Constitutionalist	constitutionalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	1883	1883	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **precede** | gerund |  | Myths |  |  |  | Chronicle and Constitutionalist \_ of 11  March *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myths=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | Myths *not said here* |  | Augusta and Ga |  | first *property* | vn create-26.4 «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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