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title: People orter tek notus er Buh Eagle an do jes es him do. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: People orter tek notus er Buh Eagle an do jes es him do. Who acts: People. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 1

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People orter tek notus er Buh Eagle an do jes es him do.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** do, es · **To what, where:** jes, Buh

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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:pg76586:6:1
# text = People orter tek notus er Buh Eagle an do jes es him do.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	orter	ort	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	er	er	X	GW	_	9	nsubj	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	goeswith	_	_
7	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	jes	j	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	es	es	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | People and orter tek notus | jes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **es** | infinitive | People and orter tek notus *not said here* | Buh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | People and orter tek notus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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