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title: De lick hot um so bad eh holler out: “Wudder dat? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De lick hot um so bad eh holler out: “Wudder dat? Who acts: De. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 124

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De lick hot um so bad eh holler out: “Wudder dat?

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** lick out · **To what, where:** hot 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De), 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:pg76586:11:124
# text = De lick hot um so bad eh holler out: “Wudder dat?
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wudder	wudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick out** | present | De | hot um |  |  |  | bad eh holler *obl:unmarked*; Wudder dat *parataxis* | 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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