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title: THE NEGRO AND THE ALLIGATOR. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE NEGRO AND THE ALLIGATOR. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 19

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THE NEGRO AND THE ALLIGATOR.

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**To what, where:** NEGRO

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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: 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:pg76586:13:19
# text = THE NEGRO AND THE ALLIGATOR.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	NEGRO	NEGRO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ALLIGATOR	alligator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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