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title: De woice soun so outlandish, an eh come wid sich er big noise, de be… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De woice soun so outlandish, an eh come wid sich er big noise, de beastises all conclude wuh Buh Deer bin tell dem bin so, an dat de Sperit, him bin tek persession er de house. Who acts: eh, wid sich, Buh Deer. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C.,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 99

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De woice soun so outlandish, an eh come wid sich er big noise, de beastises all conclude wuh Buh Deer bin tell dem bin so, an dat de Sperit, him bin tek persession er de house.

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**Who acts:** eh, wid sich, Buh Deer · **What happens:** come, conclude, tell, bin · **To what, where:** dem bin, tek persession · **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 (eh, wid sich, Buh Deer), 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:pg76586:5:99
# text = De woice soun so outlandish, an eh come wid sich er big noise, de beastises all conclude wuh Buh Deer bin tell dem bin so, an dat de Sperit, him bin tek persession er de house.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	woice	woice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	soun	soun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	er	er	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	beastises	beastis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	conclude	conclude	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	de	de	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
36	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	persession	persession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	amod	_	_
39	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	flat:foreign	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conclude** | present | wid sich and big noise |  |  |  |  | de beastises *nsubj*; all *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Buh Deer | dem bin |  |  |  | a dat de Sperit *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bin=Recipient |
| 4 | **bin** | present | eh | tek persession |  |  |  | er house *obj* | 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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