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title: When skinned and thoroughly boiled, its tail was esteemed by many as… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: When skinned and thoroughly boiled, its tail was esteemed by many as a savory article of food. 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 28

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When skinned and thoroughly boiled, its tail was esteemed by many as a savory article of food.

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**What happens:** boil, esteem, article · **To what, where:** tail, food

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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:pg76586:13:28
# text = When skinned and thoroughly boiled, its tail was esteemed by many as a savory article of food.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	skinned	skinned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	savory	savory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **esteem** | past · passive |  | plantation's tail |  |  |  | by many; as a savory article of food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **article** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: of=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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