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title: De Nigger cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Gentlemans, me spec… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Nigger cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Gentlemans, me spec wen Mossa fire pon topper um, de deer mus be bin er bresh fly offer eh yez wid eh hine foot.” Who acts: De, Gentlemans, yez. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Openi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 53

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De Nigger cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Gentlemans, me spec wen Mossa fire pon topper um, de deer mus be bin er bresh fly offer eh yez wid eh hine foot.”

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**Who acts:** De, Gentlemans, yez · **What happens:** head, wen, fly offer, foot

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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, Gentlemans, yez), 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:pg76586:11:53
# text = De Nigger cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Gentlemans, me spec wen Mossa fire pon topper um, de deer mus be bin er bresh fly offer eh yez wid eh hine foot.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	cratch	cratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Gentlemans	Gentleman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	spec	spec	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	18	appos	_	_
31	bresh	bresh	X	NN	_	30	goeswith	_	_
32	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	offer	offer	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
35	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	nsubj	_	_
36	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	eh	eh	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	dep	_	_
38	hine	hine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** |  | De |  |  |  |  | a den eh and mek answer *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wen** *in a quote* |  | De |  |  |  |  | Mossa *appos*; pon topper um and deer mus *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly offer** *in a quote* | present | Gentlemans and spec wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **foot** *in a quote* |  | yez |  |  |  |  |  | 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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