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title: Rattlesnake must a bin trike dat cow an pizen um.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rattlesnake must a bin trike dat cow an pizen um.” A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 160

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Rattlesnake must a bin trike dat cow an pizen um.”

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**To what, where:** dat cow

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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 2. 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:pg76586:2:160
# text = Rattlesnake must a bin trike dat cow an pizen um.”
1	Rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trike	trike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	pizen	pizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	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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