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title: Dem raise up de clorte wuh bin ober eh face, an eh look dist es natr… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem raise up de clorte wuh bin ober eh face, an eh look dist es natrul; an dem tell um goodbye one by one. Who acts: Dem, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 139

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Dem raise up de clorte wuh bin ober eh face, an eh look dist es natrul; an dem tell um goodbye one by one.

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**Who acts:** Dem, eh · **What happens:** raise up, look, tell · **To what, where:** de, dist es, um goodbye · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem, eh), 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:pg76586:10:139
# text = Dem raise up de clorte wuh bin ober eh face, an eh look dist es natrul; an dem tell um goodbye one by one.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	clorte	clorte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	bin	bin	X	GW	_	2	obj	_	_
8	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	dist	dist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	natrul	natrul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise up** | present | Dem | de |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | a eh | dist es |  |  |  | natrul *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a dem | um goodbye |  |  |  | by one | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=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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