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title: One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead. 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 141

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One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead.

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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: 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:pg76586:11:141
# text = One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	spectin	spectin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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