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title: Dest es I cross de causeway an rise de hill by Shannul ole buryin-gr… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dest es I cross de causeway an rise de hill by Shannul ole buryin-groun me see Miley,--wuh bin dead de year arter freedom,--duh lean genst one oak tree sider de road. Who acts: Dest es, ole, bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Ope
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 23

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Dest es I cross de causeway an rise de hill by Shannul ole buryin-groun me see Miley,--wuh bin dead de year arter freedom,--duh lean genst one oak tree sider de road.

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**Who acts:** Dest es, ole, bin · **What happens:** cross, groun, see, freedom, lean · **To what, where:** causeway, me, Miley, one tree sider

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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 (Dest es, ole, bin), 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:pg76586:14:23
# text = Dest es I cross de causeway an rise de hill by Shannul ole buryin-groun me see Miley,--wuh bin dead de year arter freedom,--duh lean genst one oak tree sider de road.
1	Dest	d	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	causeway	causeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Shannul	shannul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	reparandum	_	_
13	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
14	buryin	buryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	groun	groun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Miley	Miley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
23	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	genst	gen	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	xcomp	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
35	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	sider	sider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	de	de	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present | Dest es | de causeway |  |  |  | a de hill *obl*; I *nsubj* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent causeway=Patient |
| 2 | **groun** | infinitive | ole | me |  |  |  | buryin *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | ole *not said here* | Miley |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miley=Stimulus |
| 4 | **freedom** |  | bin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lean** | infinitive | bin *not said here* | one tree sider |  |  |  | de road; gen *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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