🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

Ascending backward three of the steps, and quickly placing his right foot upon John’s shoulder, so as to keep him below and thus obtain an additional purchase, with one supreme effort he succeeded in compassing his purpose.

Who acts: Ascending, John · What happens: ascend, place, keep, obtain, succeed, compass · To what, where: three, right foot, shoulder, John, additional purchase, one supreme effort

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ascending, John), 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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