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title: De Ole Man shum, an eh light offer eh waggin an run up ter um wid eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Ole Man shum, an eh light offer eh waggin an run up ter um wid eh big whip een eh han. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 23

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De Ole Man shum, an eh light offer eh waggin an run up ter um wid eh big whip een eh han.

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**What happens:** run up · **To what, where:** Ole Man shum

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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: 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:pg76586:10:23
# text = De Ole Man shum, an eh light offer eh waggin an run up ter um wid eh big whip een eh han.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	offer	offer	X	GW	_	8	acl	_	_
10	eh	eh	X	GW	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | present |  | Ole Man shum |  |  |  | ter um; whip eh han *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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