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title: De leely Gal prommus, an de Alligatur tek um on eh back and ferry um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De leely Gal prommus, an de Alligatur tek um on eh back and ferry um ober all safe. Who acts: de. 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 15

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De leely Gal prommus, an de Alligatur tek um on eh back and ferry um ober all safe.

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**Who acts:** de · **What happens:** um back, ferry · **To what, where:** eh, um, De leely Gal prommus

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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 (de), 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:pg76586:5:15
# text = De leely Gal prommus, an de Alligatur tek um on eh back and ferry um ober all safe.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	leely	leely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Gal	Gal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	um	um	X	GW	_	15	obj	_	_
17	ober	ober	X	JJ	_	16	goeswith	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um back** |  | de |  |  | eh |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ferry** | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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