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title: Den de gentlemans ax um how de same ball could er hit de deer een eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de gentlemans ax um how de same ball could er hit de deer een eh hine foot an een eh yez same time. Who acts: Den. 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 52

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Den de gentlemans ax um how de same ball could er hit de deer een eh hine foot an een eh yez same time.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** er, hit · **To what, where:** hit deer

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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), 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:pg76586:11:52
# text = Den de gentlemans ax um how de same ball could er hit de deer een eh hine foot an een eh yez same time.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
4	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	hine	hine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	conj	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | could | Den | hit deer  hine foot and een eh |  |  |  | de same ball *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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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