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title: Den eh haul back an eh gen de bag anurrer whaling ub er lick. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh haul back an eh gen de bag anurrer whaling ub er lick. Who acts: Den eh, eh gen de bag anurrer. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 121

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Den eh haul back an eh gen de bag anurrer whaling ub er lick.

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**Who acts:** Den eh, eh gen de bag anurrer · **What happens:** haul back, whale · **To what, where:** eh gen de bag anurrer, ub

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den eh, eh gen de bag anurrer), 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:pg76586:11:121
# text = Den eh haul back an eh gen de bag anurrer whaling ub er lick.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	haul	haul	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	whaling	whale	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	ub	ub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul back** | present | Den eh | a eh gen de bag anurrer |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anurrer=Theme |
| 2 | **whale** | gerund | a eh gen de bag anurrer *not said here* | ub |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ub=Location |

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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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