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title: From dat day to dis you kin nebber ketch Buh Alligatur sleep fur fro… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: From dat day to dis you kin nebber ketch Buh Alligatur sleep fur from de bank; an de fus time eh yeddy bush crack, er anyting mek rackit, eh leggo eberyting an fall right in de water. Who acts: day, de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jon
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 209

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From dat day to dis you kin nebber ketch Buh Alligatur sleep fur from de bank; an de fus time eh yeddy bush crack, er anyting mek rackit, eh leggo eberyting an fall right in de water.

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**Who acts:** day, de · **What happens:** dis, crack, eberyt · **To what, where:** kin, de bank, fall, de water

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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 (day, de), 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:pg76586:1:209
# text = From dat day to dis you kin nebber ketch Buh Alligatur sleep fur from de bank; an de fus time eh yeddy bush crack, er anyting mek rackit, eh leggo eberyting an fall right in de water.
1	From	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	dis	dis	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kin	kin	X	GW	_	5	obj	_	_
8	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
20	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	anyting	anything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	rackit	rackit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
32	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
33	leggo	leggo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	_
34	eberyting	eberyt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	right	right	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dis** | to-infinitive | that day | kin  you |  | de bank |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crack** |  | a de |  |  |  |  | er anyting and mek rackit *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eberyt** | gerund |  | a fall |  | de water |  |  | 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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