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title: De man skaid wus den bad, but eh wunt drap eh fiddle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man skaid wus den bad, but eh wunt drap eh fiddle. Who acts: wunt. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 31

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De man skaid wus den bad, but eh wunt drap eh fiddle.

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**Who acts:** wunt · **What happens:** drap · **To what, where:** eh fiddle, wus den

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wunt), 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:pg76586:12:31
# text = De man skaid wus den bad, but eh wunt drap eh fiddle.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skaid	skaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** | present | eh wunt | eh fiddle |  |  |  |  | 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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