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title: De po ooman dat skade eh ready fuh fall off. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De po ooman dat skade eh ready fuh fall off. Who acts: ooman dat skade. 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 55

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De po ooman dat skade eh ready fuh fall off.

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**Who acts:** ooman dat skade · **What happens:** fall off

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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 (ooman dat skade), 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:pg76586:8:55
# text = De po ooman dat skade eh ready fuh fall off.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	po	po	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	ooman	ooman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	dat	dat	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | present | ooman dat skade |  |  |  |  | eh ready fuh *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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