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title: _Obersheer_, overseer _Offer_, off of _Ole_, old _Ooman_, woman, wom… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Obersheer_, overseer _Offer_, off of _Ole_, old _Ooman_, woman, women _Out_, to go out, to extinguish _Outer_, out of 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 24

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\_Obersheer\_, overseer \_Offer\_, off of \_Ole\_, old \_Ooman\_, woman, women \_Out\_, to go out, to extinguish \_Outer\_, out of

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**What happens:** go out, extinguish · **To what, where:** Outer, Obersheer

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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: 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:pg76586:15:24
# text = _Obersheer_, overseer _Offer_, off of _Ole_, old _Ooman_, woman, women _Out_, to go out, to extinguish _Outer_, out of
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Offer	offer	X	GW	_	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Ooman	Ooman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Out	outstanding	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	extinguish	extinguish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Outer	outer	X	GW	_	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	advmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **extinguish** | to-infinitive |  | Outer |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent outer=Patient |

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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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