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title: With the use of an old-fashioned extractor, with which to pry out an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: With the use of an old-fashioned extractor, with which to pry out an offending molar tooth, sometimes even at the expense of a fractured jaw, he was familiar. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 118

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With the use of an old-fashioned extractor, with which to pry out an offending molar tooth, sometimes even at the expense of a fractured jaw, he was familiar.

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**Who acts:** Daddy · **What happens:** pry out, offend, fracture, be, use · **To what, where:** offending molar tooth, fashioned extractor

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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:pg76586:12:118
# text = With the use of an old-fashioned extractor, with which to pry out an offending molar tooth, sometimes even at the expense of a fractured jaw, he was familiar.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	extractor	extractor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pry	pry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	offending	offend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
18	molar	molar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pry out** | to-infinitive |  | a offending molar tooth |  |  |  | with the use of a fashioned extractor; which *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
| 2 | **offend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fracture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Daddy |  |  |  |  | familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | a fashioned extractor |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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