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title: For the first time Jack beheld sundry appliances which modern ingenu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the first time Jack beheld sundry appliances which modern ingenuity had devised for the facile extraction of teeth. Who acts: Jack. 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 o
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 121

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For the first time Jack beheld sundry appliances which modern ingenuity had devised for the facile extraction of teeth.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** behold, devise, extract · **To what, where:** sundry appliances, modern ingenuity, teeth

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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 (Jack), 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:pg76586:12:121
# text = For the first time Jack beheld sundry appliances which modern ingenuity had devised for the facile extraction of teeth.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sundry	sundry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	appliances	appliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	facile	facile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	extraction	extraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | Jack | sundry appliances |  |  | time |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appliance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **devise** | past · perfect · passive |  | modern ingenuity |  |  |  | for the facile extraction of teeth; sundry appliances *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **extract** |  |  | teeth |  |  |  |  | nom extraction «process 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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