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title: Dem nuttne cept de shape er people wid de sperit eenside. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem nuttne cept de shape er people wid de sperit eenside. Who acts: people. 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 56

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Dem nuttne cept de shape er people wid de sperit eenside.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** eenside · **To what, where:** de shape er

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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 (people), 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:pg76586:14:56
# text = Dem nuttne cept de shape er people wid de sperit eenside.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
10	sperit	sperit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eenside** |  | people | de shape er  Dem cept *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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