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title: Dem look pon topper me so kind, an dey open an shet dem wing, an mek… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem look pon topper me so kind, an dey open an shet dem wing, an mek sich a cool breeze een de house. Who acts: Dem, dey, mek sich. 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 ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 105

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Dem look pon topper me so kind, an dey open an shet dem wing, an mek sich a cool breeze een de house.

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**Who acts:** Dem, dey, mek sich · **What happens:** look, open, house · **To what, where:** pon topper, dem wing

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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 (Dem, dey, mek sich), 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:pg76586:14:105
# text = Dem look pon topper me so kind, an dey open an shet dem wing, an mek sich a cool breeze een de house.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	shet	shet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Dem | pon topper |  |  |  | me *obl*; kind *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme topper=Attribute |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | a dey | a dem wing |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 3 | **house** |  | a mek sich |  |  |  |  | a cool breeze *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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