🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 130

Seating John in a wooden chair in the yard, and with his face turned to the sun so that the old man could “git er fair sight at de teet,” Jack proceeded with his lancet to separate the tooth, as far as practicable, from the engorged and circumjacent gum.

Who acts: Seating, Jack · What happens: seat, turn, proceed, separate, engorge · To what, where: John, wooden chair, sun, git, tooth

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 (Seating, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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