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title: Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh cock up eh yez, an eh holler out: “Me yeddy you. Who acts: you, sutten eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 111

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Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh cock up eh yez, an eh holler out: “Me yeddy you.

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**Who acts:** you, sutten eh · **What happens:** den up, trow down, look off · **To what, where:** ob, eh hoe, way

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sutten eh), 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:pg76586:5:111
# text = Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh cock up eh yez, an eh holler out: “Me yeddy you.
1	Den	den	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	off	off	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
22	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
23	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	compound	_	_
32	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den up** | imperative | you *not said here* | all ob |  |  |  | a eh holler *obl*; Me yeddy *obl*; a eh cock *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trow down** | present | sutten eh | eh hoe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | way |  |  |  | off *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute |

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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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