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title: Dey gree on nex Monday week fur run de race. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dey gree on nex Monday week fur run de race. Who acts: Dey, Monday week fur. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 232

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Dey gree on nex Monday week fur run de race.

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**Who acts:** Dey, Monday week fur · **What happens:** gree, run · **To what, where:** nex, de race

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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 (Dey, Monday week fur), 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:pg76586:1:232
# text = Dey gree on nex Monday week fur run de race.
1	Dey	Dey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gree** | present | Dey |  |  | nex |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | Monday week fur | de race |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |

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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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