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title: De cloze hab eh shape, but you kin see dey yent nuttne eenside er um.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cloze hab eh shape, but you kin see dey yent nuttne eenside er um.” 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 8

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De cloze hab eh shape, but you kin see dey yent nuttne eenside er um.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** dey, De cloze hab

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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:pg76586:14:8
# text = De cloze hab eh shape, but you kin see dey yent nuttne eenside er um.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	er	er	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** |  | you | dey and yent nuttne eenside |  |  |  | um *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dey=Stimulus |

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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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