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title: De people all stonish, an wen dem fine out de trute er de ting, dem… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De people all stonish, an wen dem fine out de trute er de ting, dem berry bex; an, befo dem leff, dem bemean Buh Wolf sich er fashion eh bin shame fuh show ehself een de settlement fuh many er days. Who acts: De people, dem leff, er eh bin shame. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 145

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De people all stonish, an wen dem fine out de trute er de ting, dem berry bex; an, befo dem leff, dem bemean Buh Wolf sich er fashion eh bin shame fuh show ehself een de settlement fuh many er days.

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**Who acts:** De people, dem leff, er eh bin shame · **What happens:** stonish, bemean, show · **To what, where:** wen dem, Buh sich, ehself

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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 (De people, dem leff, er eh bin shame), 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:pg76586:10:145
# text = De people all stonish, an wen dem fine out de trute er de ting, dem berry bex; an, befo dem leff, dem bemean Buh Wolf sich er fashion eh bin shame fuh show ehself een de settlement fuh many er days.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stonish	stonish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
12	trute	trute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	bemean	bemean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
33	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
38	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
39	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	obj	_	_
41	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	flat	_	_
42	settlement	settlement	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	flat:foreign	_	_
43	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	46	discourse	_	_
44	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stonish** | present | De people | a wen dem  de trute er de ting and berry bex |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bemean** | infinitive | a dem leff and dem | Buh sich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | infinitive | er eh bin shame | ehself |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient een=Topic |

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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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