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title: De ole man look at um, an walk roun um, an notus um close, an listne… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole man look at um, an walk roun um, an notus um close, an listne fuh see ef eh could yeddy anyting duh mobe. Who acts: De ole man. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 113

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De ole man look at um, an walk roun um, an notus um close, an listne fuh see ef eh could yeddy anyting duh mobe.

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**Who acts:** De ole man · **What happens:** look, see · **To what, where:** ef

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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: who acts (De ole man), 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:pg76586:8:113
# text = De ole man look at um, an walk roun um, an notus um close, an listne fuh see ef eh could yeddy anyting duh mobe.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	listne	listne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	anyting	anything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	mobe	mobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | De ole man |  |  |  |  | at um and a roun um and a notus um and a listne fuh | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at um=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | De ole man *not said here* | ef |  |  |  | yeddy anyting and mobe *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=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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