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title: De po ooman tenk um berry much, an dem gone back an nobody bin know… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De po ooman tenk um berry much, an dem gone back an nobody bin know bout dis plan. Who acts: De po, dem. 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 64

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De po ooman tenk um berry much, an dem gone back an nobody bin know bout dis plan.

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**Who acts:** De po, dem · **What happens:** berry, go back, know · **To what, where:** nobody bin, dis plan

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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 po, dem), 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:pg76586:8:64
# text = De po ooman tenk um berry much, an dem gone back an nobody bin know bout dis plan.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	po	po	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
3	ooman	ooman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	tenk	tenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | De po |  |  |  |  | ooman tenk um *nsubj* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go back** | participle | a dem *not said here* | a nobody bin |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | present | a dem | dis plan |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus |

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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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