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title: After much persuasion Jack prevailed upon him to open his mouth and… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: After much persuasion Jack prevailed upon him to open his mouth and let him “tek de ting out.” Who acts: Jack. 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 5

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After much persuasion Jack prevailed upon him to open his mouth and let him “tek de ting out.”

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** prevail, open, let out · **To what, where:** mouth, Jack

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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 (Jack), 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:pg76586:13:5
# text = After much persuasion Jack prevailed upon him to open his mouth and let him “tek de ting out.”
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | past | Jack |  |  |  | after much persuasion | upon John | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | Jack's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **let out** | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  | tek ting *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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