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title: Deese yer Cooter am all so much like one anurrer you cant tell one f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deese yer Cooter am all so much like one anurrer you cant tell one from turrer. Who acts: Deese, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 235

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Deese yer Cooter am all so much like one anurrer you cant tell one from turrer.

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**Who acts:** Deese, you · **What happens:** be, cant, tell · **To what, where:** one anurrer, one, turrer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deese, you), 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:pg76586:1:235
# text = Deese yer Cooter am all so much like one anurrer you cant tell one from turrer.
1	Deese	Deese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cant	cant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	turrer	turrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Deese |  |  |  |  | like one anurrer | tree rules |
| 2 | **cant** | present | you | one anurrer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  | turrer |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |

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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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