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title: Dem gone roun an roun, up an down, tel dem dead tired. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem gone roun an roun, up an down, tel dem dead tired. Who acts: Dem. 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 40

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Dem gone roun an roun, up an down, tel dem dead tired.

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** roun roun

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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 (Dem), 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:pg76586:12:40
# text = Dem gone roun an roun, up an down, tel dem dead tired.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	roun	roun	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | Dem | a roun roun |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=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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