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title: Seating John in a wooden chair in the yard, and with his face turned… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seating John in a wooden chair in the yard, and with his face turned to the sun so that the old man could “git er fair sight at de teet,” Jack proceeded with his lancet to separate the tooth, as far as practicable, from the engorged and circumjacent gum. Who acts: Seating, Jack. A sentence of «Negro
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 130

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Seating John in a wooden chair in the yard, and with his face turned to the sun so that the old man could “git er fair sight at de teet,” Jack proceeded with his lancet to separate the tooth, as far as practicable, from the engorged and circumjacent gum.

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**Who acts:** Seating, Jack · **What happens:** seat, turn, proceed, separate, engorge · **To what, where:** John, wooden chair, sun, git, tooth

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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 (Seating, 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:pg76586:12:130
# text = Seating John in a wooden chair in the yard, and with his face turned to the sun so that the old man could “git er fair sight at de teet,” Jack proceeded with his lancet to separate the tooth, as far as practicable, from the engorged and circumjacent gum.
1	Seating	seat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	compound	_	_
32	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	lancet	lancet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	as	as	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	practicable	practicable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
52	engorged	engorge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	amod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	circumjacent	circumjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
55	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | gerund |  | John |  | a wooden chair in the yard |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent john=Value in chair=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Seating |  |  | the sun |  | with John's face | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sun=Trajectory |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | Jack | git and er fair sight at de teet *not said here* |  |  |  | with John's lancet | tree rules |
| 4 | **separate** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the tooth |  |  |  | from the engorged gum; far *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient from gum=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **engorge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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