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title: Alligatur yeddy um, an eh come day, an eh ax de leely Gal wuh de mat… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alligatur yeddy um, an eh come day, an eh ax de leely Gal wuh de matter. Who acts: eh, Alligatur yeddy um. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 12

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Alligatur yeddy um, an eh come day, an eh ax de leely Gal wuh de matter.

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**Who acts:** eh, Alligatur yeddy um · **What happens:** come, matter

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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 (eh, Alligatur yeddy um), 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:pg76586:5:12
# text = Alligatur yeddy um, an eh come day, an eh ax de leely Gal wuh de matter.
1	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
18	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a eh |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **matter** | present | Alligatur yeddy um and a eh ax |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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