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title: De faster de fiddler play, de faster dem dance. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De faster de fiddler play, de faster dem dance. 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 39

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De faster de fiddler play, de faster dem dance.

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**To what, where:** de fiddler play

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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: 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:pg76586:12:39
# text = De faster de fiddler play, de faster dem dance.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	conj	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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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