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title: “Las winter me en George bin er hunt possum een Jerrido bottom. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Las winter me en George bin er hunt possum een Jerrido bottom. Who acts: George. 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 32

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“Las winter me en George bin er hunt possum een Jerrido bottom.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** hunt · **To what, where:** possum

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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 (George), 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:pg76586:14:32
# text = “Las winter me en George bin er hunt possum een Jerrido bottom.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Las	las	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
12	Jerrido	Jerrido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present | George  winter en | possum |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Theme |

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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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