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title: De woice so sewere Buh Deer skade, an eh leff, an eh gone tell all d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De woice so sewere Buh Deer skade, an eh leff, an eh gone tell all dem tarruh animel say big Sperit gone tek de house way dem perwision done gedder. Who acts: De woice, all, gone way dem perwision. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, O
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

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De woice so sewere Buh Deer skade, an eh leff, an eh gone tell all dem tarruh animel say big Sperit gone tek de house way dem perwision done gedder.

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**Who acts:** De woice, all, gone way dem perwision · **What happens:** go, tell, say, do · **To what, where:** eh, gedder · **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 (De woice, all, gone way dem perwision), 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:pg76586:5:89
# text = De woice so sewere Buh Deer skade, an eh leff, an eh gone tell all dem tarruh animel say big Sperit gone tek de house way dem perwision done gedder.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sewere	sewere	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	animel	animel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
23	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
25	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	perwision	perwision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | De woice |  |  |  |  | Buh  skade  a eh leff *nsubj*; sewere *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | all  tarruh animel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | participle | gone way dem perwision *not said here* | gedder |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gedder=Eventuality |

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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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