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title: Instead of crossing on the log, he saw fit to descend the gentle ban… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of crossing on the log, he saw fit to descend the gentle bank and wade through the water. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 68

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Instead of crossing on the log, he saw fit to descend the gentle bank and wade through the water.

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**Who acts:** tide · **What happens:** cross, see, descend, wade · **To what, where:** log, gentle bank, water

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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 (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:pg76586:13:68
# text = Instead of crossing on the log, he saw fit to descend the gentle bank and wade through the water.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wade	wade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund | tide *not said here* |  |  | the log |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | tide |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **descend** | to-infinitive | tide *not said here* | the gentle bank |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bank=Theme |
| 4 | **wade** | present | tide *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |

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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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