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title: “No, sir; you see dem all size, leetle an big, man an ooman, gal an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, sir; you see dem all size, leetle an big, man an ooman, gal an boy, an leely baby. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 63

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“No, sir; you see dem all size, leetle an big, man an ooman, gal an boy, an leely baby.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, leetle, gal · **To what, where:** dem, big man, boy

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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:pg76586:14:63
# text = “No, sir; you see dem all size, leetle an big, man an ooman, gal an boy, an leely baby.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	leetle	leetle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ooman	ooman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gal	gal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | dem |  |  |  | all size *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leetle** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a big man |  |  |  | a ooman *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gal** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a boy and a leely baby |  |  |  |  | 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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