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title: John was quickly upon his feet, and then upon tiptoe, so that Jack c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: John was quickly upon his feet, and then upon tiptoe, so that Jack could no longer operate to any advantage. Who acts: John, Jack. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

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John was quickly upon his feet, and then upon tiptoe, so that Jack could no longer operate to any advantage.

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**Who acts:** John, Jack · **What happens:** be, operate

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, 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:pg76586:13:10
# text = John was quickly upon his feet, and then upon tiptoe, so that Jack could no longer operate to any advantage.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	operate	operate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | John |  |  |  |  | upon John's feet; tiptoe *parataxis*; quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **operate** | could | Jack |  |  |  |  | to any advantage; long *property* | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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