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title: His wish was gratified, and the plantation was notified that he now… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: His wish was gratified, and the plantation was notified that he now possessed instruments with which teeth might be extracted readily and with the least amount of pain. Who acts: ingenuity. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 124

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His wish was gratified, and the plantation was notified that he now possessed instruments with which teeth might be extracted readily and with the least amount of pain.

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**Who acts:** ingenuity · **What happens:** gratify, notify, possess, extract, wish, amount · **To what, where:** wish, plantation, instruments, teeth, pain

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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 (ingenuity), 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:pg76586:12:124
# text = His wish was gratified, and the plantation was notified that he now possessed instruments with which teeth might be extracted readily and with the least amount of pain.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	gratified	gratify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	notified	notify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	extracted	extract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gratify** | past · passive |  | ingenuity's wish |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **notify** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the plantation |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **possess** | past | ingenuity | instruments |  |  | now |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot instrument=Theme |
| 4 | **extract** | might · passive |  | teeth |  |  |  | with instruments; the least amount of pain *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wish** |  | ingenuity |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **amount** |  |  | pain |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession 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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