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title: Arter dat nobody ebber yeddy um mek no mo prayer bout Det. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arter dat nobody ebber yeddy um mek no mo prayer bout Det. Who acts: Arter. 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 133

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Arter dat nobody ebber yeddy um mek no mo prayer bout Det.

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**Who acts:** Arter · **What happens:** dat · **To what, where:** nobody

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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 (Arter), 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:pg76586:6:133
# text = Arter dat nobody ebber yeddy um mek no mo prayer bout Det.
1	Arter	Arter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dat	dat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
9	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
12	Det	Det	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dat** | past | Arter | nobody |  |  |  | ebber yeddy um *obj*; no prayer bout *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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