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title: John, already appalled at the suffering which he had endured, gazed… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: John, already appalled at the suffering which he had endured, gazed upon the instrument with eyes as big as saucers, and resolutely closed his mouth. Who acts: John. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its depend
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 2

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John, already appalled at the suffering which he had endured, gazed upon the instrument with eyes as big as saucers, and resolutely closed his mouth.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** appall, endure, gaze, close · **To what, where:** suffering, mouth

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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), 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:pg76586:13:2
# text = John, already appalled at the suffering which he had endured, gazed upon the instrument with eyes as big as saucers, and resolutely closed his mouth.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	appalled	appall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appall** | participle | John |  |  | the suffering |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **endure** | past · perfect · passive |  | the suffering |  |  |  | John *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance |
| 3 | **gaze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon the instrument with eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon instrument=Theme |
| 4 | **close** | past | John *not said here* | John's mouth |  |  |  | resolutely *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |

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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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