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title: Sometimes days were allowed to elapse before the slain animal or bir… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes days were allowed to elapse before the slain animal or bird became suitably seasoned for the feast. Who acts: days, slain animal. 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 55

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Sometimes days were allowed to elapse before the slain animal or bird became suitably seasoned for the feast.

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**Who acts:** days, slain animal · **What happens:** allow, elapse, become, season · **To what, where:** days

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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 (days, slain animal), 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:pg76586:13:55
# text = Sometimes days were allowed to elapse before the slain animal or bird became suitably seasoned for the feast.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	elapse	elapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	suitably	suitably	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | days |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **elapse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | the slain animal or bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **season** | participle | the slain animal or bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the feast; suitably *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: 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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