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title: Changed ‘ob er’ to ‘ober’ ... all ober sutten, ... — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Changed ‘ob er’ to ‘ober’ ... all ober sutten, ... A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Days of the Week, sentence 8

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Changed ‘ob er’ to ‘ober’ ... all ober sutten, ...

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**What happens:** change · **To what, where:** ob er

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week. 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:pg76586:17:8
# text = Changed ‘ob er’ to ‘ober’ ... all ober sutten, ...
1	Changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	ober	ober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sutten	sutten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | ob er to ober |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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