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title: De nex day de Alligatur duh sun ehself on de ribber bank, an eh yedd… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex day de Alligatur duh sun ehself on de ribber bank, an eh yeddy er woice say: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober. Who acts: eh yeddy, Alligatur. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 16

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De nex day de Alligatur duh sun ehself on de ribber bank, an eh yeddy er woice say: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.

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**Who acts:** eh yeddy, Alligatur · **What happens:** say, ferry · **To what, where:** sun, eh yeddy · **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 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 yeddy, Alligatur), 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:pg76586:5:16
# text = De nex day de Alligatur duh sun ehself on de ribber bank, an eh yeddy er woice say: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
2	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	er	er	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh yeddy and er woice | sun  ehself on de ribber bank |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ferry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alligatur  Yaller belly | a eh yeddy and er woice *= yeddy* |  |  |  | ober *obj* | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme ober=Result |

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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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