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title: Me ole cloze an me ole body leff behine, an somehow narruh me sperit… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me ole cloze an me ole body leff behine, an somehow narruh me sperit, him keep de shape er de body. Who acts: de. 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 111

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Me ole cloze an me ole body leff behine, an somehow narruh me sperit, him keep de shape er de body.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** Me ole cloze

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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 (de), 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:pg76586:14:111
# text = Me ole cloze an me ole body leff behine, an somehow narruh me sperit, him keep de shape er de body.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
6	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	behine	behine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | de | Me ole cloze  me and ole leff behine and a me sperit |  |  |  | er de body *obj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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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