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title: Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.” 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 66

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Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.”

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**What happens:** do · **To what, where:** meat house

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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: 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:pg76586:12:66
# text = Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.”
1	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	goolly	goolly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tunder	tunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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