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title: Dem gone een de paster an pick out one fat yearlin, an run um down,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem gone een de paster an pick out one fat yearlin, an run um down, an ketch um, an cut eh troat. Who acts: Dem, cut eh. 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 35

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Dem gone een de paster an pick out one fat yearlin, an run um down, an ketch um, an cut eh troat.

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**Who acts:** Dem, cut eh · **What happens:** go out, run down, troat · **To what, where:** een paster, um, ketch um

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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 (Dem, cut eh), 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:pg76586:10:35
# text = Dem gone een de paster an pick out one fat yearlin, an run um down, an ketch um, an cut eh troat.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	amod	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat	_	_
5	paster	paster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	troat	troat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | participle | Dem | een paster |  |  |  | a pick *obl*; one fat yearlin *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run down** | present | Dem *not said here* | um |  |  |  | a ketch um *parataxis*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Trajectory |
| 3 | **troat** | infinitive | a cut eh | a ketch um *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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