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title: Dem cant dance er foot furder, an dem duh try fuh keep de time long… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem cant dance er foot furder, an dem duh try fuh keep de time long dem head. Who acts: Dem cant foot furder. 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 42

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Dem cant dance er foot furder, an dem duh try fuh keep de time long dem head.

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**Who acts:** Dem cant foot furder · **What happens:** try, keep

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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 cant foot furder), 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:pg76586:12:42
# text = Dem cant dance er foot furder, an dem duh try fuh keep de time long dem head.
1	Dem	dem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	furder	furder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	xcomp	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | Dem cant foot furder and a dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Dem cant foot furder and a dem *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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