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title: To the European, newly landed on these shores, the alligator was ind… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the European, newly landed on these shores, the alligator was indeed a novelty, repulsive and provocative of dread. Who acts: 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 23

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To the European, newly landed on these shores, the alligator was indeed a novelty, repulsive and provocative of dread.

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**Who acts:** alligator · **What happens:** land, be · **To what, where:** shores, novelty

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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 (alligator), 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:pg76586:13:23
# text = To the European, newly landed on these shores, the alligator was indeed a novelty, repulsive and provocative of dread.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	alligator	alligator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	novelty	novelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	repulsive	repulsive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	provocative	provocative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	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 | **land** | participle |  |  |  | this shores |  | to the European; newly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on shore=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the alligator | a novelty |  |  |  | indeed *property* | 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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