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title: De Buckra brag heaby on de ole man, an berry offne eh win bet topper… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Buckra brag heaby on de ole man, an berry offne eh win bet topper um. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 103

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De Buckra brag heaby on de ole man, an berry offne eh win bet topper um.

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**What happens:** win · **To what, where:** De brag heaby

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:8:103
# text = De Buckra brag heaby on de ole man, an berry offne eh win bet topper um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	heaby	heaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	offne	offne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present |  | De brag heaby on de ole man and a berry offne |  |  |  | topper um *obj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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