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title: Of mankind they apparently entertained an inborn fear, and would qui… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of mankind they apparently entertained an inborn fear, and would quit the part of the river or lagoon in which men or even boys were swimming. Who acts: ducks, men. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its depende
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 57

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Of mankind they apparently entertained an inborn fear, and would quit the part of the river or lagoon in which men or even boys were swimming.

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**Who acts:** ducks, men · **What happens:** entertain, quit, swim · **To what, where:** inborn fear, part

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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 (ducks, men), 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:pg76586:13:57
# text = Of mankind they apparently entertained an inborn fear, and would quit the part of the river or lagoon in which men or even boys were swimming.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	inborn	inborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entertain** | past | ducks *= duck* | a inborn fear |  |  |  | of mankind; apparently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer |
| 2 | **quit** | would | ducks *= duck* *not said here* | the part of the river or lagoon in which men or boys |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Source |
| 3 | **swim** | past · progressive | which men or boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP 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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