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title: _Up ter de notch_, in the best style _Usen_, to be in the habit of — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Up ter de notch_, in the best style _Usen_, to be in the habit 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 30

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\_Up ter de notch\_, in the best style \_Usen\_, to be in the habit of

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** habit, ter de notch

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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:pg76586:15:30
# text = _Up ter de notch_, in the best style _Usen_, to be in the habit of
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	case	_	_
3	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	notch	notch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Usen	Usen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |

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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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