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title: To Jack’s command that he open it, he responded: “De teet yent duh h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: To Jack’s command that he open it, he responded: “De teet yent duh hot me no mo. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, 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 13, sentence 3

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To Jack’s command that he open it, he responded: “De teet yent duh hot me no mo.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** open, respond, command · **To what, where:** command · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:13:3
# text = To Jack’s command that he open it, he responded: “De teet yent duh hot me no mo.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | infinitive | Jack | command |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | to Jack's command | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to command=Theme |
| 3 | **command** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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