🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 25

His ancestors were well acquainted with the African crocodile, and their descendants, dwelling in this marsh region filled with swamps and cypress ponds, and permeated with lagoons, creeks, and rivers--the habitat of this formidable reptile--were from childhood familiar with its roar, and entirely accustomed to its unsightly appearance and habits.

Who acts: rivers, familiar · What happens: acquaint, dwell, fill, permeate, be, accustom · To what, where: ancestors, marsh region, childhood familiar

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 (rivers, familiar), 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

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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