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title: De ax miss de snake, an glance back off de log an cut de man own leg… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ax miss de snake, an glance back off de log an cut de man own leg off. Who acts: De ax miss. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 167

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De ax miss de snake, an glance back off de log an cut de man own leg off.

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**Who acts:** De ax miss · **What happens:** log off · **To what, where:** cut

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De ax miss), 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:pg76586:4:167
# text = De ax miss de snake, an glance back off de log an cut de man own leg off.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
12	log	log	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obl	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **log off** | infinitive | De ax miss and de snake | a cut |  |  |  | de *obl*; man *vocative*; a glance *nsubj*; own leg *obj* | 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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