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title: My leely Sue, wuh dead, blan come an play bout de house ebry now an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: My leely Sue, wuh dead, blan come an play bout de house ebry now an den. Who acts: blan. 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 64

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My leely Sue, wuh dead, blan come an play bout de house ebry now an den.

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**Who acts:** blan · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** play bout, leely Sue

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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 (blan), 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:pg76586:14:64
# text = My leely Sue, wuh dead, blan come an play bout de house ebry now an den.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sue	Sue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	blan	blan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | blan | a play bout |  |  |  | a den *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bout=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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