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title: George skade, an we leff fuh de nigger house. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: George skade, an we leff fuh de nigger house. Who acts: we. 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 41

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George skade, an we leff fuh de nigger house.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** leff · **To what, where:** George

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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 (we), 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:pg76586:14:41
# text = George skade, an we leff fuh de nigger house.
1	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leff** |  | we |  |  |  |  | de nigger house *conj* | 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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