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title: One bright spring morning, a stalwart young carpenter, John by name,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One bright spring morning, a stalwart young carpenter, John by name, who had been suffering from a decayed jaw-tooth of huge proportions, presented himself with swollen face and most lugubrious countenance. Who acts: stalwart young carpenter. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 128

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One bright spring morning, a stalwart young carpenter, John by name, who had been suffering from a decayed jaw-tooth of huge proportions, presented himself with swollen face and most lugubrious countenance.

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**Who acts:** stalwart young carpenter · **What happens:** suffer, decay, present · **To what, where:** decayed jaw tooth, carpenter

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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 (stalwart young carpenter), 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:pg76586:12:128
# text = One bright spring morning, a stalwart young carpenter, John by name, who had been suffering from a decayed jaw-tooth of huge proportions, presented himself with swollen face and most lugubrious countenance.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	decayed	decay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
29	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	lugubrious	lugubrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past · perfect · progressive | a stalwart young carpenter |  |  | a decayed jaw tooth of huge proportions |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **decay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **present** | past | a stalwart young carpenter | carpenter |  |  | morning | with swollen face and lugubrious countenance | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with face=Theme |

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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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