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title: Den eh farruh, wuh bin de King, gen out wud say de one wuh kin fetch… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh farruh, wuh bin de King, gen out wud say de one wuh kin fetch ter um de Alligatur yeye teet, an water from de Deer yeye, shill hab eh Darter. Who acts: Den wud, one wuh kin, de. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 22

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Den eh farruh, wuh bin de King, gen out wud say de one wuh kin fetch ter um de Alligatur yeye teet, an water from de Deer yeye, shill hab eh Darter.

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**Who acts:** Den wud, one wuh kin, de · **What happens:** say, fetch, teet, shill · **To what, where:** de, ter um, hab · **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 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 wud, one wuh kin, de), 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:pg76586:11:22
# text = Den eh farruh, wuh bin de King, gen out wud say de one wuh kin fetch ter um de Alligatur yeye teet, an water from de Deer yeye, shill hab eh Darter.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
12	wud	wud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	ter	ter	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
22	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	teet	teet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	yeye	yeye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	shill	shill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
34	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
36	Darter	Darter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Den wud | de |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | present | one wuh kin | ter um |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 3 | **teet** |  | de |  |  |  |  | a water from de and Deer yeye *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shill** | infinitive | one wuh kin *not said here* | hab |  |  |  |  | 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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