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title: _Ile me bade_, grease my mouth _Isself_, himself, herself, itself, t… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Ile me bade_, grease my mouth _Isself_, himself, herself, itself, themselves Who acts: _ Ile. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 18

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\_Ile me bade\_, grease my mouth \_Isself\_, himself, herself, itself, themselves

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**Who acts:** \_ Ile · **What happens:** grease · **To what, where:** mouth

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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 (\_ Ile), 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:pg76586:15:18
# text = _Ile me bade_, grease my mouth _Isself_, himself, herself, itself, themselves
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ile	Ile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grease	grease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grease** | infinitive | \_ Ile  me | my mouth |  |  |  | Isself *obl*; Ile *obl*; Haky *obl:unmarked* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mouth=Destination |

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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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