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title: Near the negro quarter, where he resided on the home-plantation, was… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the negro quarter, where he resided on the home-plantation, was a small creek, in which the tide ebbed and flowed. Who acts: Sawney, tide. 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 64

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Near the negro quarter, where he resided on the home-plantation, was a small creek, in which the tide ebbed and flowed.

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**Who acts:** Sawney, tide · **What happens:** reside, be, ebb, flow · **To what, where:** home plantation, small creek, negro quarter

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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 (Sawney, tide), 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:pg76586:13:64
# text = Near the negro quarter, where he resided on the home-plantation, was a small creek, in which the tide ebbed and flowed.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	resided	reside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ebbed	ebb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reside** | past | Sawney |  |  | the home plantation |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plantation=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a small creek |  | the negro quarter |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ebb** | past | the tide |  |  | a small creek |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flow** | past | the tide *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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