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title: Him duh er smate man, an eh see tru de ting right off. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Him duh er smate man, an eh see tru de ting right off. Who acts: ter. 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 87

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Him duh er smate man, an eh see tru de ting right off.

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**Who acts:** ter · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** tru de ting

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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 (ter), 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:pg76586:6:87
# text = Him duh er smate man, an eh see tru de ting right off.
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
3	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	smate	smate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	tru	tru	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | ter | tru de ting |  |  |  | smate man and a eh *nsubj*; off *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ting=Stimulus |

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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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