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title: De noung lady tek wid um right off. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De noung lady tek wid um right off. 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 29

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De noung lady tek wid um right off.

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**To what, where:** De lady tek wid

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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:pg76586:8:29
# text = De noung lady tek wid um right off.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
2	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	um	um	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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