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description: In ante-bellum days, when firearms were denied to the negro population, alligators were far more numerous than they are at present. Who acts: alligators, firearms. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 49

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In ante-bellum days, when firearms were denied to the negro population, alligators were far more numerous than they are at present.

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**Who acts:** alligators, firearms · **What happens:** deny, be · **To what, where:** firearms

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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 (alligators, firearms), 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:pg76586:13:49
# text = In ante-bellum days, when firearms were denied to the negro population, alligators were far more numerous than they are at present.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bellum	bellum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	firearms	firearm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	denied	deny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	alligators	alligator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | past · passive |  | firearms |  |  |  | to the negro population | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | alligators |  |  |  | day | numerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | firearms *= firearm* |  |  |  |  | present *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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