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title: De soldier tek dem gun an dem club, an dem massacree all de ageable… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De soldier tek dem gun an dem club, an dem massacree all de ageable people een de lan. 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 50

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De soldier tek dem gun an dem club, an dem massacree all de ageable people een de lan.

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**To what, where:** tek dem gun

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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:pg76586:12:50
# text = De soldier tek dem gun an dem club, an dem massacree all de ageable people een de lan.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	massacree	massacree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	ageable	ageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
17	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	amod	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat	_	_
19	lan	lan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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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