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title: If this vigorous treatment failed of the desired effect, a repetitio… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: If this vigorous treatment failed of the desired effect, a repetition was generally resolved upon; and so the patient, sometimes enfeebled to such a degree that he no longer afforded attractive food for disease, slowly recovered in spite of this San Grado regimen. Who acts: vigorous treatment, desir
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 114

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If this vigorous treatment failed of the desired effect, a repetition was generally resolved upon; and so the patient, sometimes enfeebled to such a degree that he no longer afforded attractive food for disease, slowly recovered in spite of this San Grado regimen.

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**Who acts:** vigorous treatment, desired effect, patient · **What happens:** fail, desire, resolve, enfeeble, afford, recover · **To what, where:** repetition, patient, attractive food, spite, San regimen

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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 (vigorous treatment, desired effect, patient), 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:pg76586:12:114
# text = If this vigorous treatment failed of the desired effect, a repetition was generally resolved upon; and so the patient, sometimes enfeebled to such a degree that he no longer afforded attractive food for disease, slowly recovered in spite of this San Grado regimen.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	enfeebled	enfeeble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
34	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
45	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	Grado	Grado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	_
47	regimen	regimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past | this vigorous treatment |  |  |  |  | of the desired effect | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **desire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **resolve** | past · passive | the desired effect *not said here* | a repetition |  |  |  | generally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enfeeble** | participle |  | the patient *not said here* |  |  |  | to such degree; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **afford** | participle | patient | attractive food |  |  |  | for disease; long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **recover** | participle | patient *not said here* |  |  | spite of this San regimen |  | slowly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | this San regimen |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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