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title: _Abnue_, avenue _Agg_, egg _All ob er sutten_, quickly and unexpecte… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Abnue_, avenue _Agg_, egg _All ob er sutten_, quickly and unexpectedly _An_, and _Arter_, after _Arur_, each, either _Ax_, ask Who acts: Arur. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 10

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\_Abnue\_, avenue \_Agg\_, egg \_All ob er sutten\_, quickly and unexpectedly \_An\_, and \_Arter\_, after \_Arur\_, each, either \_Ax\_, ask

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**Who acts:** Arur · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Arter, Abnue

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arur), 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:pg76586:15:10
# text = _Abnue_, avenue _Agg_, egg _All ob er sutten_, quickly and unexpectedly _An_, and _Arter_, after _Arur_, each, either _Ax_, ask
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Abnue	Abnue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Agg	Agg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
14	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
30	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Arur	Arur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc:preconj	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
42	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Arur | Arter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arter=Recipient |

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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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