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title: In after years the old man often recurred with manifest pride and sa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In after years the old man often recurred with manifest pride and satisfaction to this incident, and frequently cited this exploit in confirmation of his boast “dat no nigger teet ebber yet did git de better er me.” Who acts: old man, dat, man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 17

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In after years the old man often recurred with manifest pride and satisfaction to this incident, and frequently cited this exploit in confirmation of his boast “dat no nigger teet ebber yet did git de better er me.”

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**Who acts:** old man, dat, man · **What happens:** recur, cite, er, confirm, boast · **To what, where:** exploit, confirmation, triumph, boast

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, dat, man), 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:pg76586:13:17
# text = In after years the old man often recurred with manifest pride and satisfaction to this incident, and frequently cited this exploit in confirmation of his boast “dat no nigger teet ebber yet did git de better er me.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	recurred	recur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	manifest	manifest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cited	cite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	exploit	exploit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
31	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
34	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	de	de	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
39	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recur** | participle | the old man |  |  |  | year | with manifest pride and satisfaction; to this incident; often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cite** | past | the old man *not said here* | this exploit |  | confirmation of man's boast |  | frequently *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exploit=Theme |
| 3 | **er** *in a quote* | past · do-support | dat | triumph |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **confirm** |  |  | man's boast |  |  |  |  | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **boast** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=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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