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title: Bout middle night you tek you horse an you paint one side er um whit… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bout middle night you tek you horse an you paint one side er um white, an de tarruh side er um black. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 67

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Bout middle night you tek you horse an you paint one side er um white, an de tarruh side er um black.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tek, paint · **To what, where:** you, one side

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:7:67
# text = Bout middle night you tek you horse an you paint one side er um white, an de tarruh side er um black.
1	Bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tek	tek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	er	er	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
19	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	20	appos	_	_
22	um	um	X	JJ	_	21	goeswith	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tek** | present | you | you |  |  | night | horse *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | infinitive | you | one side |  |  |  | a tarruh side *obl* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination |

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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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