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title: _Quaintun_, acquainted with _Quaintance_, acquaintances _Quile_, to… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Quaintun_, acquainted with _Quaintance_, acquaintances _Quile_, to coil, coiled _Quire_, to inquire, inquired Who acts: Quaintun. 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 eve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 26

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\_Quaintun\_, acquainted with \_Quaintance\_, acquaintances \_Quile\_, to coil, coiled \_Quire\_, to inquire, inquired

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**Who acts:** Quaintun · **What happens:** acquaint, coil, inquire · **To what, where:** Quile, coiled Quire

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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: who acts (Quaintun), 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:pg76586:15:26
# text = _Quaintun_, acquainted with _Quaintance_, acquaintances _Quile_, to coil, coiled _Quire_, to inquire, inquired
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quaintun	Quaintun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Quaintance	Quaintance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Quile	Quile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	coil	coil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | participle | Quaintun | Quile |  |  |  | with Quaintance and acquaintances | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **coil** | to-infinitive |  | coiled Quire |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent quire=Material |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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