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title: It was in no wise an easy operation to draw from its hiding-place on… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in no wise an easy operation to draw from its hiding-place one of these reluctant, excited, and revolving monsters. 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 prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 41

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It was in no wise an easy operation to draw from its hiding-place one of these reluctant, excited, and revolving monsters.

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**Who acts:** ALLIGATOR · **What happens:** be, draw, revolve · **To what, where:** wise easy operation

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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:pg76586:13:41
# text = It was in no wise an easy operation to draw from its hiding-place one of these reluctant, excited, and revolving monsters.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
18	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
19	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	revolving	revolve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ALLIGATOR |  |  | no wise easy operation |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from ALLIGATOR's place one of reluctant revolving monsters  these | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from one=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **revolve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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