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title: One time day was a berry pooty noung ooman name May Belle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time day was a berry pooty noung ooman name May Belle. Who acts: One time day, berry pooty. 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 23

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One time day was a berry pooty noung ooman name May Belle.

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**Who acts:** One time day, berry pooty · **What happens:** be, noung · **To what, where:** berry pooty, ooman name

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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 (One time day, berry pooty), 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:pg76586:8:23
# text = One time day was a berry pooty noung ooman name May Belle.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	noung	noung	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	ooman	ooman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Belle	Belle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | One time day | a berry pooty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **noung** | gerund | a berry pooty *not said here* | ooman name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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