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title: “Wenebber,” added old Daddy Smart, “you farruh gie you anyting, tek… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wenebber,” added old Daddy Smart, “you farruh gie you anyting, tek um, an tenky. Who acts: Wenebber, you. 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 52

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“Wenebber,” added old Daddy Smart, “you farruh gie you anyting, tek um, an tenky.

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**Who acts:** Wenebber, you · **What happens:** add, gie · **To what, where:** old Daddy Smart, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wenebber, you), 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:pg76586:4:52
# text = “Wenebber,” added old Daddy Smart, “you farruh gie you anyting, tek um, an tenky.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wenebber	wenebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Smart	Smart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	anyting	anything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tenky	tenky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Wenebber | old Daddy Smart |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smart=Patient |
| 2 | **gie** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | you |  |  |  | anyting and a tenky *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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