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title: Many time dem people wuh cant see sperit come pon top dem an dunno n… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many time dem people wuh cant see sperit come pon top dem an dunno nuttne bout um. Who acts: wuh cant, Many dem people. 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 47

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Many time dem people wuh cant see sperit come pon top dem an dunno nuttne bout um.

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**Who acts:** wuh cant, Many dem people · **What happens:** see, come · **To what, where:** sperit, pon top dem

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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 (wuh cant, Many dem people), 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:pg76586:14:47
# text = Many time dem people wuh cant see sperit come pon top dem an dunno nuttne bout um.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | wuh cant | sperit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sperit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | present | Many dem people | pon top dem |  |  |  | a bout um *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dem=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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