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title: Den eh onlatch de shedroom do an gone een fuh cut de troat er Buh Go… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh onlatch de shedroom do an gone een fuh cut de troat er Buh Goat an eh wife. Who acts: Den eh onlatch. 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 78

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Den eh onlatch de shedroom do an gone een fuh cut de troat er Buh Goat an eh wife.

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**Who acts:** Den eh onlatch · **What happens:** do, cut, troat · **To what, where:** gone een fuh

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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 (Den eh onlatch), 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:pg76586:12:78
# text = Den eh onlatch de shedroom do an gone een fuh cut de troat er Buh Goat an eh wife.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	onlatch	onlatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shedroom	shedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	troat	troat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
16	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Den eh onlatch de shedroom | a gone een fuh |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | a gone een fuh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **troat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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