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title: Den de Ole Man fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fool um an tief eh fish. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Ole Man fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fool um an tief eh fish. 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 13

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Den de Ole Man fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fool um an tief eh fish.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** fine out, say · **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:pg76586:10:13
# text = Den de Ole Man fine out say Buh Rabbit bin fool um an tief eh fish.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine out** | past | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | Buh fool um  a tief eh fish *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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