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title: _Rale_, very truly, really _Range_, reins _Rastle_, to wrestle _Retc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Rale_, very truly, really _Range_, reins _Rastle_, to wrestle _Retch_, to reach, to arrive at _Ribber_, river _Riz_, rose _Roose_, roost Who acts: Rale. 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 an
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

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\_Rale\_, very truly, really \_Range\_, reins \_Rastle\_, to wrestle \_Retch\_, to reach, to arrive at \_Ribber\_, river \_Riz\_, rose \_Roose\_, roost

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**Who acts:** Rale · **What happens:** wrestle, retch, reach, arrive, rise · **To what, where:** Ribber, Roose

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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 (Rale), 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:pg76586:15:27
# text = _Rale_, very truly, really _Range_, reins _Rastle_, to wrestle _Retch_, to reach, to arrive at _Ribber_, river _Riz_, rose _Roose_, roost
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rale	Rale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Range	Range	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Rastle	Rastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Retch	retch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Riz	Riz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
39	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Roose	Roose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	roost	roost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **retch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **arrive** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Ribber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rise** | past | Rale and Range reins | Roose |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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