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title: As the cutting proceeded and the blood trickled from the corners of… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the cutting proceeded and the blood trickled from the corners of John’s mouth, Jack encouraged his demoralized patient with the injunction: “Tan ter um luk er man, me son. Who acts: cutting, Jack. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 132

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As the cutting proceeded and the blood trickled from the corners of John’s mouth, Jack encouraged his demoralized patient with the injunction: “Tan ter um luk er man, me son.

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**Who acts:** cutting, Jack · **What happens:** proceed, trickle, encourage, demoralize · **To what, where:** blood, corners, demoralized patient

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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 (cutting, 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:pg76586:12:132
# text = As the cutting proceeded and the blood trickled from the corners of John’s mouth, Jack encouraged his demoralized patient with the injunction: “Tan ter um luk er man, me son.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cutting	cutting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	demoralized	demoralize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	injunction	injunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Tan	tan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
31	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | the cutting | the blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trickle** | participle |  | the blood *not said here* |  | the corners of John's mouth |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from corner=Source |
| 3 | **encourage** | past | Jack | John's demoralized patient and Tan um luk  er's man  me's son |  |  |  | with the injunction | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Theme |
| 4 | **demoralize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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