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title: It was not more than half-leg deep, and the creek was only some ten… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not more than half-leg deep, and the creek was only some ten yards wide. Who acts: bank, creek. 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 69

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It was not more than half-leg deep, and the creek was only some ten yards wide.

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**Who acts:** bank, creek · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ten yards

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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 (bank, creek), 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:pg76586:13:69
# text = It was not more than half-leg deep, and the creek was only some ten yards wide.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bank |  |  |  |  | than half leg; deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the creek | some ten yards |  |  |  | wide *property* | tree rules |

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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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