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title: Dont leh um set bout de house duh do nuttne, an duh spek eh farruh a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dont leh um set bout de house duh do nuttne, an duh spek eh farruh an eh murrer fuh fine bittle an cloze fuh um. Who acts: bout house duh. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 3

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Dont leh um set bout de house duh do nuttne, an duh spek eh farruh an eh murrer fuh fine bittle an cloze fuh um.

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**Who acts:** bout house duh · **What happens:** set, do · **To what, where:** um, nuttne, Dont

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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 (bout house duh), 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:pg76586:6:3
# text = Dont leh um set bout de house duh do nuttne, an duh spek eh farruh an eh murrer fuh fine bittle an cloze fuh um.
1	Dont	Dont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	leh	leh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	spek	spek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
16	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	murrer	murrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	cloze	cloze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  | leh um *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | bout house duh | nuttne |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=Eventuality |

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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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