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title: De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man quire gen: “Den you musser c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man quire gen: “Den you musser come fuh de Obersheer?” 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 125

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De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man quire gen: “Den you musser come fuh de Obersheer?”

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** shake, den, come · **To what, where:** eh head, you, Obersheer

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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:pg76586:6:125
# text = De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man quire gen: “Den you musser come fuh de Obersheer?”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	gen.	Gen.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Den	den	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	musser	musser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	advmod	_	_
20	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | infinitive | De | eh head |  |  |  | Ole quire gen *obj* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent head=Theme gen=Destination |
| 2 | **den** *in a quote* | infinitive | De *not said here* | you |  |  |  | musser *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | De *not said here* | Obersheer |  |  |  |  | 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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