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title: He understood how to cut around an aching tooth with the same lancet… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He understood how to cut around an aching tooth with the same lancet which he employed in blood-letting from the arm. 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 of
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 116

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He understood how to cut around an aching tooth with the same lancet which he employed in blood-letting from the arm.

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**Who acts:** Daddy · **What happens:** understand, cut, employ, let · **To what, where:** aching tooth, same lancet, arm

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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:pg76586:12:116
# text = He understood how to cut around an aching tooth with the same lancet which he employed in blood-letting from the arm.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	aching	aching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lancet	lancet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | past | Daddy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Daddy *not said here* |  |  | a aching tooth |  | with the same lancet | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tooth=Location |
| 3 | **employ** | past | Daddy | the same lancet |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | gerund | Daddy *not said here* |  |  | the arm |  | blood *compound* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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