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title: De fool Bud come an light on eh nose, an eh holler gen: “Yaller-bell… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De fool Bud come an light on eh nose, an eh holler gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.” Who acts: De fool, Yaller belly. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 30

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De fool Bud come an light on eh nose, an eh holler gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”

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**Who acts:** De fool, Yaller belly · **What happens:** come, ferry · **To what, where:** light, eh nose, bex

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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 fool, Yaller belly), 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:pg76586:5:30
# text = De fool Bud come an light on eh nose, an eh holler gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	ferry	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | De fool | a light |  | eh nose and a eh holler gen |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme |
| 2 | **ferry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Yaller belly | bex |  |  |  | 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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