🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 114

If this vigorous treatment failed of the desired effect, a repetition was generally resolved upon; and so the patient, sometimes enfeebled to such a degree that he no longer afforded attractive food for disease, slowly recovered in spite of this San Grado regimen.

Who acts: vigorous treatment, desired effect, patient · What happens: fail, desire, resolve, enfeeble, afford, recover · To what, where: repetition, patient, attractive food, spite, San regimen

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vigorous treatment, desired effect, patient), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

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