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title: For an hour and more he entertained me, as was his wont, with tales… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For an hour and more he entertained me, as was his wont, with tales of the olden time, and was evidently in excellent spirits. Who acts: man, olden time. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 86

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For an hour and more he entertained me, as was his wont, with tales of the olden time, and was evidently in excellent spirits.

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**Who acts:** man, olden time · **What happens:** entertain, be, tell · **To what, where:** me, excellent spirits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, olden time), 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:pg76586:14:86
# text = For an hour and more he entertained me, as was his wont, with tales of the olden time, and was evidently in excellent spirits.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entertain** | past | man | me |  |  | hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | man *nmod:poss*; tales of the olden time *conj*; wont *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | excellent spirits |  | evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the olden time |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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