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title: De groun yent broke; no hole day: an yet me see um, wid me own yeye,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De groun yent broke; no hole day: an yet me see um, wid me own yeye, gone down, head foremose, een eh grabe. Who acts: De yent, me. 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 31

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De groun yent broke; no hole day: an yet me see um, wid me own yeye, gone down, head foremose, een eh grabe.

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**Who acts:** De yent, me · **What happens:** break, see, wi, go down · **To what, where:** an, um, me, own yeye

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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 yent, me), 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:pg76586:14:31
# text = De groun yent broke; no hole day: an yet me see um, wid me own yeye, gone down, head foremose, een eh grabe.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	amod	_	_
2	groun	groun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	obj	_	_
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	foremose	foremose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
28	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
29	grabe	grabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | De yent | an |  |  | day |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer a=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | me | um |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wi** | past | De yent *not said here* | me |  |  |  | een *obl*; own yeye and head foremose *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go down** | participle |  | own yeye and head foremose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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