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title: Ef you shoot an kill one er dem pigeon, de edder two boun fuh fly wa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you shoot an kill one er dem pigeon, de edder two boun fuh fly way, an none gwine leff.” Who acts: Ef, edder boun. 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 16

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Ef you shoot an kill one er dem pigeon, de edder two boun fuh fly way, an none gwine leff.”

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**Who acts:** Ef, edder boun · **What happens:** shoot, fly · **To what, where:** kill, way

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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 (Ef, edder boun), 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:pg76586:11:16
# text = Ef you shoot an kill one er dem pigeon, de edder two boun fuh fly way, an none gwine leff.”
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	edder	edder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	boun	boun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	compound	_	_
21	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | present | Ef | a kill |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; one dem pigeon *conj*; edder boun and a gwine leff *parataxis* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | edder boun and a gwine leff *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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