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title: De tree so big de ole man cant retch round um wid bofe eh arm. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De tree so big de ole man cant retch round um wid bofe eh arm. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 177

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De tree so big de ole man cant retch round um wid bofe eh arm.

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**To what, where:** De tree

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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 2. 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:pg76586:2:177
# text = De tree so big de ole man cant retch round um wid bofe eh arm.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	retch	retch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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