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title: De Buckra man answer: “Wen you see me duh seddown, an you tink me du… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Buckra man answer: “Wen you see me duh seddown, an you tink me duh lazy, same time me duh wuk long me head, an duh mek plan, an study pon ting.” Who acts: you, Nigger notus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

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De Buckra man answer: “Wen you see me duh seddown, an you tink me duh lazy, same time me duh wuk long me head, an duh mek plan, an study pon ting.”

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**Who acts:** you, Nigger notus · **What happens:** see, tink, head · **To what, where:** Wen, Nigger notus, De man answer

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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 (you, Nigger notus), 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:pg76586:11:5
# text = De Buckra man answer: “Wen you see me duh seddown, an you tink me duh lazy, same time me duh wuk long me head, an duh mek plan, an study pon ting.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	seddown	seddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
25	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | Wen |  |  |  | me *obj*; seddown and same time *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tink** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | Nigger notus *= notus* |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **head** *in a quote* |  | Nigger notus *= notus* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | 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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