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title: De Alligatur call to de Jay-Bud, an eh quire: “Wudder dat you say?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Alligatur call to de Jay-Bud, an eh quire: “Wudder dat you say?” Who acts: you. 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 23

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De Alligatur call to de Jay-Bud, an eh quire: “Wudder dat you say?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** de, say · **To what, where:** Jay, Wudder dat, De Alligatur call · **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 (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:pg76586:5:23
# text = De Alligatur call to de Jay-Bud, an eh quire: “Wudder dat you say?”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod: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	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Wudder	wudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | to-infinitive |  | Jay  Bud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | Wudder dat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic |

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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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