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title: Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you go fuh fine um eh yent dedday. Who acts: Nobody, you. 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 45

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Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you go fuh fine um eh yent dedday.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, you · **What happens:** know, go · **To what, where:** fuh ketch um, wen

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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 (Nobody, you), 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:pg76586:6:45
# text = Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you go fuh fine um eh yent dedday.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	eh	eh	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
10	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	um	um	ADP	GW	Typo=Yes	24	case	_	_
22	eh	eh	X	GW	_	21	goeswith	_	_
23	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dedday	dedday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Nobody | fuh ketch um and a wen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | you | a wen *not said here* |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wen=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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