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title: An de Jay-Bud keep a sing: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An de Jay-Bud keep a sing: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.” Who acts: de Jay Bud, 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

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An de Jay-Bud keep a sing: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”

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**Who acts:** de Jay Bud, Alligatur · **What happens:** keep, ferry · **To what, where:** sing, Eh

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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 Jay Bud, 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:pg76586:5:24
# text = An de Jay-Bud keep a sing: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | a de Jay Bud | a sing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme |
| 2 | **ferry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alligatur  Yaller belly | Eh |  |  |  | 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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