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title: Steader dat, an befo eh fine out, de Ole Man knock um een de head wi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steader dat, an befo eh fine out, de Ole Man knock um een de head wid de butt er eh whip an stunted um. Who acts: Steader dat. 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 c
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 25

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Steader dat, an befo eh fine out, de Ole Man knock um een de head wid de butt er eh whip an stunted um.

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**Who acts:** Steader dat · **What happens:** knock, stunt · **To what, where:** um

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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 (Steader dat), 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:pg76586:10:25
# text = Steader dat, an befo eh fine out, de Ole Man knock um een de head wid de butt er eh whip an stunted um.
1	Steader	Steader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	amod	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
20	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
21	er	er	X	FW	_	23	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	stunted	stunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | infinitive | Steader dat and a befo | um |  |  |  | Ole Man *nsubj*; een head *obj*; wid de butt *obj*; er eh whip *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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