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title: The ordinary Fetich consisted of a bunch of rusty nails, bits of red… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The ordinary Fetich consisted of a bunch of rusty nails, bits of red flannel, and pieces of brier-root tied together with a cotton string. Who acts: ordinary Fetich. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, with its depend
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 96

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The ordinary Fetich consisted of a bunch of rusty nails, bits of red flannel, and pieces of brier-root tied together with a cotton string.

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**Who acts:** ordinary Fetich · **What happens:** consist, tie · **To what, where:** pieces, brier root

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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 (ordinary Fetich), 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:pg76586:13:96
# text = The ordinary Fetich consisted of a bunch of rusty nails, bits of red flannel, and pieces of brier-root tied together with a cotton string.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fetich	Fetich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flannel	flannel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | the ordinary Fetich | pieces of brier root |  |  |  | of a bunch of rusty nails | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  | brier root *not said here* |  |  |  | with a cotton string; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient |

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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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