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title: Enty we yeddy you sing an tenk de Lord case tunder an lightnin sen m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enty we yeddy you sing an tenk de Lord case tunder an lightnin sen meat een you house? Who acts: we, you, sen meat. 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 92

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Enty we yeddy you sing an tenk de Lord case tunder an lightnin sen meat een you house?

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**Who acts:** we, you, sen meat · **What happens:** yeddy, sing, house · **To what, where:** tenk de

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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 (we, you, sen meat), 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:pg76586:12:92
# text = Enty we yeddy you sing an tenk de Lord case tunder an lightnin sen meat een you house?
1	Enty	enty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tenk	tenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tunder	tunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yeddy** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | you | a tenk de |  |  |  | Lord case tunder *conj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location de=Theme |
| 3 | **house** |  | a sen meat |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | 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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