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title: Den dey all run up an cahr de meat to dem house, an cook um an eat um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den dey all run up an cahr de meat to dem house, an cook um an eat um. Who acts: cook 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 167

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Den dey all run up an cahr de meat to dem house, an cook um an eat um.

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**Who acts:** cook um · **What happens:** run up, eat · **To what, where:** Den dey, um

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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 (cook um), 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:pg76586:2:167
# text = Den dey all run up an cahr de meat to dem house, an cook um an eat um.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | present |  | Den dey |  |  |  | a cahr de meat to dem house *parataxis*; all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a cook um *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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