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title: All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an tek dem las look at um. Who acts: dem las. 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 142

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All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an tek dem las look at um.

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**Who acts:** dem las · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** nuss, um, de pon

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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 (dem las), 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:pg76586:11:142
# text = All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an tek dem las look at um.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	collec	collec	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
8	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	conj	_	_
9	um	um	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	nuss	nuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	um	um	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a dem las | nuss *not said here* |  | um |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nuss=Attribute |

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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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