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title: At lenk dem all two so outdone dem bleege fuh drap der groun an try… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: At lenk dem all two so outdone dem bleege fuh drap der groun an try fuh ketch dem win. Who acts: two, ketch 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 41

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At lenk dem all two so outdone dem bleege fuh drap der groun an try fuh ketch dem win.

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**Who acts:** two, ketch dem · **What happens:** outdo, drap, win · **To what, where:** der groun, lenk dem

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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 (two, ketch 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:pg76586:12:41
# text = At lenk dem all two so outdone dem bleege fuh drap der groun an try fuh ketch dem win.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	outdone	outdo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bleege	bleege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	drap	drap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outdo** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **drap** | infinitive | two and outdone dem bleege | der groun |  | lenk dem |  | a try *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | present | ketch dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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