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title: De Ole Man yeddy say some body come ter him do, an wen eh tun roun f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Ole Man yeddy say some body come ter him do, an wen eh tun roun fuh look, eh see one tall somebody all wrop up head an yez een white. Who acts: Man yeddy, wen, eh tun roun. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with i
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 118

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De Ole Man yeddy say some body come ter him do, an wen eh tun roun fuh look, eh see one tall somebody all wrop up head an yez een white.

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**Who acts:** Man yeddy, wen, eh tun roun · **What happens:** say, come, roun, look, see, wrop up · **To what, where:** body, somebody · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man yeddy, wen, eh tun roun), 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:pg76586:6:118
# text = De Ole Man yeddy say some body come ter him do, an wen eh tun roun fuh look, eh see one tall somebody all wrop up head an yez een white.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	wrop	wrop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	obj	_	_
32	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Man yeddy | some body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ter yeddy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roun** |  | wen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present · do-support | a eh tun roun |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | a eh tun roun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **wrop up** | present |  | somebody |  |  |  | head *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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