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title: All ob er sutten de horse open eh mout, an eh ax eh missis: “Enty yo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All ob er sutten de horse open eh mout, an eh ax eh missis: “Enty you know who you marry ter? Who acts: de, eh ax, 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 53

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All ob er sutten de horse open eh mout, an eh ax eh missis: “Enty you know who you marry ter?

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**Who acts:** de, eh ax, you · **What happens:** mout, missis, know, marry · **To what, where:** ter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, eh ax, 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:pg76586:8:53
# text = All ob er sutten de horse open eh mout, an eh ax eh missis: “Enty you know who you marry ter?
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	ob	ob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mout	mout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	missis	missis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Enty	enty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	marry	marry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mout** |  | de |  |  |  |  | horse *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **missis** |  | a eh ax |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | present |  | ter |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; you *nsubj* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient |

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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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