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title: _Ketch_, catch, reach to, approach _Kibber_, cover _Kine_, kind _Kno… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Ketch_, catch, reach to, approach _Kibber_, cover _Kine_, kind _Knowledge_, acknowledge, admit A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 20

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\_Ketch\_, catch, reach to, approach \_Kibber\_, cover \_Kine\_, kind \_Knowledge\_, acknowledge, admit

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**What happens:** catch, reach, approach, cover, acknowledge, admit · **To what, where:** Kibber, Kine, Ketch

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:15:20
# text = _Ketch_, catch, reach to, approach _Kibber_, cover _Kine_, kind _Knowledge_, acknowledge, admit
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ketch	Ketch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	approach	approach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Kibber	Kibber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Kine	Kine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	admit	admit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **approach** | infinitive |  | Kibber |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kibber=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | infinitive |  |  | Kine |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kine=Destination |
| 5 | **acknowledge** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **admit** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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