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title: Why you duh do duh leek youself so happy an content?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why you duh do duh leek youself so happy an content?” Who acts: you. 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 85

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Why you duh do duh leek youself so happy an content?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** leek

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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 (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:pg76586:9:85
# text = Why you duh do duh leek youself so happy an content?”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	leek	leek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	youself	youself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you | leek |  |  |  | youself *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leek=Eventuality |

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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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