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title: “Nuttne, so fur es me know, cept walk bout, wisit dem ole home, an n… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nuttne, so fur es me know, cept walk bout, wisit dem ole home, an notus wuh duh gwine on sence dem leff.” Who acts: me, Nuttne. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 10

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“Nuttne, so fur es me know, cept walk bout, wisit dem ole home, an notus wuh duh gwine on sence dem leff.”

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**Who acts:** me, Nuttne · **What happens:** know, walk · **To what, where:** fur es, bout

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, Nuttne), 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:pg76586:14:10
# text = “Nuttne, so fur es me know, cept walk bout, wisit dem ole home, an notus wuh duh gwine on sence dem leff.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nuttne	Nuttne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	wisit	wisit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
22	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | me | fur es *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer e=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | Nuttne | bout and dem ole home and a notus |  |  |  | gwine on dem leff *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bout=Trajectory |

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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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