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title: Nuttne mek um so merry es to lib offer tarruh people. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nuttne mek um so merry es to lib offer tarruh people. Who acts: Nuttne um. 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 74

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Nuttne mek um so merry es to lib offer tarruh people.

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**Who acts:** Nuttne um · **What happens:** lib offer · **To what, where:** tarruh people

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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 (Nuttne um), 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:pg76586:5:74
# text = Nuttne mek um so merry es to lib offer tarruh people.
1	Nuttne	Nuttne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lib	lib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	offer	offer	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lib offer** | to-infinitive | Nuttne um | tarruh people |  |  |  | merry es *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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