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title: As a supplement to his professional labors as a physician, Daddy Jac… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a supplement to his professional labors as a physician, Daddy Jack indulged, in a rude way, in the art of dentistry. Who acts: Daddy. 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 pragmatics 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 115

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As a supplement to his professional labors as a physician, Daddy Jack indulged, in a rude way, in the art of dentistry.

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**Who acts:** Daddy · **What happens:** indulge · **To what, where:** art

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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 (Daddy), 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:pg76586:12:115
# text = As a supplement to his professional labors as a physician, Daddy Jack indulged, in a rude way, in the art of dentistry.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	supplement	supplement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	labors	labor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	indulged	indulge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dentistry	dentistry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indulge** | past | Daddy |  |  | the art of dentistry |  | as a supplement to patient's professional labors as a physician; a rude way *ccomp* | 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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