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title: A favorite servant, intelligent, obedient, courteous, and with the m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A favorite servant, intelligent, obedient, courteous, and with the manners of the old school, he was now verging upon sixty. Who acts: intervention. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 110

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A favorite servant, intelligent, obedient, courteous, and with the manners of the old school, he was now verging upon sixty.

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**Who acts:** intervention · **What happens:** verge · **To what, where:** favorite servant

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intervention), 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:pg76586:12:110
# text = A favorite servant, intelligent, obedient, courteous, and with the manners of the old school, he was now verging upon sixty.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	verging	verge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **verge** | past · progressive | intervention |  |  |  | now | upon sixty | tree rules |

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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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