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title: Er ole King yeddy say dem gwine pit er noung King een him place. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Er ole King yeddy say dem gwine pit er noung King een him place. Who acts: ole King yeddy. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 47

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Er ole King yeddy say dem gwine pit er noung King een him place.

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**Who acts:** ole King yeddy · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** pit er · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ole King yeddy), 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:pg76586:12:47
# text = Er ole King yeddy say dem gwine pit er noung King een him place.
1	Er	er	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	er	er	X	GW	_	5	obj	_	_
10	noung	noung	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ole King yeddy | pit er |  |  |  | noung King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent er=Topic |

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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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