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title: Dem so light dem cant mek track.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem so light dem cant mek track.” 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 4

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Dem so light dem cant mek track.”

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**To what, where:** cant mek track

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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: 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:pg76586:14:4
# text = Dem so light dem cant mek track.”
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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