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title: The customary fee of a quarter of a dollar was paid in advance, and… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The customary fee of a quarter of a dollar was paid in advance, and Daddy Jack made ready for the operation. 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 its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 129

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The customary fee of a quarter of a dollar was paid in advance, and Daddy Jack made ready for the operation.

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**Who acts:** Daddy · **What happens:** pay, make · **To what, where:** customary fee, advance

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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:pg76586:12:129
# text = The customary fee of a quarter of a dollar was paid in advance, and Daddy Jack made ready for the operation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | the customary fee of a quarter of a dollar |  | advance |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | past | Daddy |  |  |  |  | for the operation; ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for operation=Asset |

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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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