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title: Eh dress up better ner all dem tarruh gentlemans. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dress up better ner all dem tarruh gentlemans. Who acts: you. 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 27

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Eh dress up better ner all dem tarruh gentlemans.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** dress up · **To what, where:** better ner

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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 (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:pg76586:8:27
# text = Eh dress up better ner all dem tarruh gentlemans.
1	Eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	dress	dress	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
9	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | imperative | you *not said here* | better ner |  |  |  | all dem gentlemans *obj* | 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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