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title: Two light topper de foot er de bed, an one on arur side er me. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two light topper de foot er de bed, an one on arur side er me. Who acts: Two light topper. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 102

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Two light topper de foot er de bed, an one on arur side er me.

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**Who acts:** Two light topper · **What happens:** er · **To what, where:** me

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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 (Two light topper), 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:pg76586:14:102
# text = Two light topper de foot er de bed, an one on arur side er me.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	er	er	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	arur	arur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | past | Two light topper  de foot and er bed and a one on arur side | me |  |  |  |  | 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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