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title: Den eh raise isself on de top er de water an eh holler back to Buh R… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh raise isself on de top er de water an eh holler back to Buh Rabbit: “Nummine, Boy, golong dis time. Who acts: Den eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 205

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Den eh raise isself on de top er de water an eh holler back to Buh Rabbit: “Nummine, Boy, golong dis time.

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**Who acts:** Den eh · **What happens:** raise · **To what, where:** isself, de top er

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den eh), 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:pg76586:1:205
# text = Den eh raise isself on de top er de water an eh holler back to Buh Rabbit: “Nummine, Boy, golong dis time.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Nummine	Nummine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	golong	golong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | Den eh | isself |  | de top er and de water |  | a eh holler *obl:unmarked*; Nummine *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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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