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title: Its skin, rudely tanned, entered largely into the composition of hom… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Its skin, rudely tanned, entered largely into the composition of home-made pouches and shoes. Who acts: skin. 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 30

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Its skin, rudely tanned, entered largely into the composition of home-made pouches and shoes.

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**Who acts:** skin · **What happens:** tan, enter, make · **To what, where:** skin, composition

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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 (skin), 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:pg76586:13:30
# text = Its skin, rudely tanned, entered largely into the composition of home-made pouches and shoes.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tanned	tan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tan** | participle |  | medicinal's skin *not said here* |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | past | medicinal's skin |  |  | the composition of made pouches and shoes |  | largely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into composition=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | home *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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