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title: Ebrybody know say Yaller Jacket wus den warse, an bee, an hornet. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ebrybody know say Yaller Jacket wus den warse, an bee, an hornet. Who acts: Ebrybody. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 120

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Ebrybody know say Yaller Jacket wus den warse, an bee, an hornet.

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**Who acts:** Ebrybody · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Yaller · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ebrybody), 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:pg76586:9:120
# text = Ebrybody know say Yaller Jacket wus den warse, an bee, an hornet.
1	Ebrybody	Ebrybody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Jacket	Jacket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	warse	warse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ebrybody | Yaller and a bee and a hornet |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yaller=Topic |

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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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