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title: On one occasion a strolling Yankee dentist visited the neighborhood. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: On one occasion a strolling Yankee dentist visited the neighborhood. Who acts: strolling Yankee dentist. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 120

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On one occasion a strolling Yankee dentist visited the neighborhood.

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**Who acts:** strolling Yankee dentist · **What happens:** stroll, visit · **To what, where:** neighborhood, one occasion

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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 (strolling Yankee dentist), 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:pg76586:12:120
# text = On one occasion a strolling Yankee dentist visited the neighborhood.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	strolling	stroll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
6	Yankee	Yankee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stroll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | past | a strolling Yankee dentist | the neighborhood |  | one occasion |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighborhood=Co-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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