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title: Den Buh Pattridge fall on de groun, an flutter, flutter, flutter, di… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Pattridge fall on de groun, an flutter, flutter, flutter, dis like eh bin guine fuh dead. Who acts: Den. 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 161

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Den Buh Pattridge fall on de groun, an flutter, flutter, flutter, dis like eh bin guine fuh dead.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** de groun

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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: who acts (Den), 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:pg76586:2:161
# text = Den Buh Pattridge fall on de groun, an flutter, flutter, flutter, dis like eh bin guine fuh dead.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Den |  |  | de groun and a flutter and flutter and flutter and dis like eh bin guine |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on groun=Location |

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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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