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title: Dem done dat, an arter dem kill an skin de Cow, dem cut um up fuh sh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem done dat, an arter dem kill an skin de Cow, dem cut um up fuh share um. 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 8

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Dem done dat, an arter dem kill an skin de Cow, dem cut um up fuh share um.

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** do, kill, cut up, share · **To what, where:** de Cow, um

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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:pg76586:12:8
# text = Dem done dat, an arter dem kill an skin de Cow, dem cut um up fuh share um.
1	Dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | Dem and done dat and a arter dem | a de Cow and dem |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 3 | **cut up** | participle |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset um=Product |
| 4 | **share** | infinitive | dem *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | 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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