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title: _Jew_, dew _Jist_, just _Juk_, jerk — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Jew_, dew _Jist_, just _Juk_, jerk A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 19

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\_Jew\_, dew \_Jist\_, just \_Juk\_, jerk

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**To what, where:** \_

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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 15. 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:pg76586:15:19
# text = _Jew_, dew _Jist_, just _Juk_, jerk
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Jist	Jist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Juk	Juk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	jerk	jerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

## 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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