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title: Sperit der walk close by you, but you no shum. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sperit der walk close by you, but you no shum. Who acts: Sperit, 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 52

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Sperit der walk close by you, but you no shum.

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**Who acts:** Sperit, you · **What happens:** walk, shum

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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 (Sperit, 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:pg76586:14:52
# text = Sperit der walk close by you, but you no shum.
1	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	shum	shum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | infinitive | Sperit |  |  |  |  | by you; close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by you=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shum** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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