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title: Fas as de tarruh debble bring sinner ter um, eh push um wid eh pitch… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fas as de tarruh debble bring sinner ter um, eh push um wid eh pitchfork an eh trow um een de fire. Who acts: Fas, wid eh pitchfork. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 146

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Fas as de tarruh debble bring sinner ter um, eh push um wid eh pitchfork an eh trow um een de fire.

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**Who acts:** Fas, wid eh pitchfork · **What happens:** bring, push, trow · **To what, where:** sinner, um, een fire

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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 (Fas, wid eh pitchfork), 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:pg76586:14:146
# text = Fas as de tarruh debble bring sinner ter um, eh push um wid eh pitchfork an eh trow um een de fire.
1	Fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
4	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	debble	debble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	trow	trow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
20	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	_
21	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	amod	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | infinitive | Fas as de | sinner |  |  |  | ter um; debble *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sinner=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | infinitive |  | um |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 3 | **trow** | infinitive | wid eh pitchfork | een fire |  |  |  | a eh *nsubj* | 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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