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description: Among these sable myth-makers it figured as an important _dramatis persona_. Who acts: region. 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 26

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Among these sable myth-makers it figured as an important \_dramatis persona\_.

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**Who acts:** region · **What happens:** figure

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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 (region), 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:pg76586:13:26
# text = Among these sable myth-makers it figured as an important _dramatis persona_.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	sable	sable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	figured	figure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	dramatis	dramatis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	persona	persona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **figure** | past | region |  |  |  |  | among sable myth makers  these; as a important dramatis persona | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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