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title: Den eh call eh driber, an dem ontie Buh Wolf an fastne um ter one tr… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh call eh driber, an dem ontie Buh Wolf an fastne um ter one tree. Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10, 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 10, sentence 106

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Den eh call eh driber, an dem ontie Buh Wolf an fastne um ter one tree.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** driber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg76586:10:106
# text = Den eh call eh driber, an dem ontie Buh Wolf an fastne um ter one tree.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	driber	driber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ontie	ontie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fastne	fastne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Den  eh | eh driber |  |  |  | ter one tree | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driber=Recipient |

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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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