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title: Den eh lead me down to one bottom wuh dark an kibber wid cloud. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh lead me down to one bottom wuh dark an kibber wid cloud. Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 141

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Den eh lead me down to one bottom wuh dark an kibber wid cloud.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** lead down, dark · **To what, where:** me, one bottom, kibber wid cloud

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg76586:14:141
# text = Den eh lead me down to one bottom wuh dark an kibber wid cloud.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	flat	_	_
3	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	dark	dark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead down** | infinitive | Den | me |  | one bottom |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bottom=Destination |
| 2 | **dark** | infinitive |  | a kibber wid cloud |  |  |  |  | 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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