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title: It really appeared as if there was scarcely a negro upon the plantat… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It really appeared as if there was scarcely a negro upon the plantation who did not have at least one tooth which “hot um,” and which “eh wan Buh Jack fuh pull out fuh um.” Who acts: It, one tooth, wan Buh Jack. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 126

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It really appeared as if there was scarcely a negro upon the plantation who did not have at least one tooth which “hot um,” and which “eh wan Buh Jack fuh pull out fuh um.”

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**Who acts:** It, one tooth, wan Buh Jack · **What happens:** appear, be, not have, um, pull out · **To what, where:** one tooth, fuh 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one tooth, wan Buh Jack), 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:pg76586:12:126
# text = It really appeared as if there was scarcely a negro upon the plantation who did not have at least one tooth which “hot um,” and which “eh wan Buh Jack fuh pull out fuh um.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plantation	plantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nmod	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a negro; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past · do-support |  | one tooth |  |  |  | upon the plantation; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 4 | **um** *in a quote* |  | one tooth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull out** *in a quote* | infinitive | eh wan Buh Jack | fuh um |  |  |  | which *obj* | 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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