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title: DE DEBBLE AN MAY BELLE 92 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: DE DEBBLE AN MAY BELLE 92 Who acts: DE. 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 89

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DE DEBBLE AN MAY BELLE 92

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**Who acts:** DE · **What happens:** belle · **To what, where:** 92

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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 (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:pg76586:1:89
# text = DE DEBBLE AN MAY BELLE 92
1	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	DEBBLE	DEBBLE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	AN	AN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	MAY	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	BELLE	belle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	92	92	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belle** | may | DE | 92 |  |  |  |  | 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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