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title: De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man rale skade now, an eh study… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man rale skade now, an eh study fuh leely while, an den eh questun gen: “Ef you no come fuh Mossa, ner Mistis, ner de Obersheer, who de Debbie you come fuh?” Who acts: De, you, ner. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Char
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 126

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De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man rale skade now, an eh study fuh leely while, an den eh questun gen: “Ef you no come fuh Mossa, ner Mistis, ner de Obersheer, who de Debbie you come fuh?”

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**Who acts:** De, you, ner · **What happens:** shake, come, de · **To what, where:** eh head, Mossa, Debbie · **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 (De, you, ner), 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:pg76586:6:126
# text = De Sperit shake eh head gen. De Ole Man rale skade now, an eh study fuh leely while, an den eh questun gen: “Ef you no come fuh Mossa, ner Mistis, ner de Obersheer, who de Debbie you come fuh?”
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	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	leely	leely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	questun	questun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
33	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	Mistis	Mistis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	de	de	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	Debbie	Debbie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
47	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	”	"	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 |  |  | now | a questun gen *obl*; rale skade *obj*; a eh study fuh *conj*; leely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you | Mossa and ner |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ef=Theme |
| 3 | **de** *in a quote* | present | ner de Obersheer | Debbie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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