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title: De minnit ole Satan graff eh claw on um eh gone, an you could yeddy… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De minnit ole Satan graff eh claw on um eh gone, an you could yeddy um duh fry een de fire same luk fat een me pan yuh. Who acts: you. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 150

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De minnit ole Satan graff eh claw on um eh gone, an you could yeddy um duh fry een de fire same luk fat een me pan yuh.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** um, fat · **To what, where:** de, ole graff eh claw

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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 (you), 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:pg76586:14:150
# text = De minnit ole Satan graff eh claw on um eh gone, an you could yeddy um duh fry een de fire same luk fat een me pan yuh.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	minnit	minnit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	graff	graff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	fry	fry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	list	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	yuh	yuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um** | could | you |  |  |  |  | fry and same luk fat and pan *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fat** | passive |  | de |  |  |  | fire *nsubj*; een  me *list*; pan *conj* | 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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