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title: Den de Dog know fuh sutten say Buh Rabbit bin wuk dat plan fuh git w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Dog know fuh sutten say Buh Rabbit bin wuk dat plan fuh git way, an dat eh done gone fuh true. Who acts: Den, sutten. 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 cla
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

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Den de Dog know fuh sutten say Buh Rabbit bin wuk dat plan fuh git way, an dat eh done gone fuh true.

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**Who acts:** Den, sutten · **What happens:** know, say, do · **To what, where:** Buh, dat eh · **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, sutten), 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:pg76586:10:66
# text = Den de Dog know fuh sutten say Buh Rabbit bin wuk dat plan fuh git way, an dat eh done gone fuh true.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	sutten	sutten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | infinitive | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sutten | Buh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | a dat eh *not said here* |  |  |  | gone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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