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title: De Bear come up ter um, an smell um, an tun um ober, an try fuh ketc… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Bear come up ter um, an smell um, an tun um ober, an try fuh ketch eh bref. Who acts: De. 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 100

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De Bear come up ter um, an smell um, an tun um ober, an try fuh ketch eh bref.

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** come up

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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 (De), 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:pg76586:6:100
# text = De Bear come up ter um, an smell um, an tun um ober, an try fuh ketch eh bref.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
20	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bref	bref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | present | De |  |  |  |  | ter um and a smell um and a um ober and a try and eh bref | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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