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title: Steader de coon, er big Gallinipper bin a settin in de crotch er de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steader de coon, er big Gallinipper bin a settin in de crotch er de sweet-gum. Who acts: Steader. 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 176

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Steader de coon, er big Gallinipper bin a settin in de crotch er de sweet-gum.

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**Who acts:** Steader · **What happens:** bin, de · **To what, where:** settin, sweet gum, de crotch 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Steader), 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:pg76586:2:176
# text = Steader de coon, er big Gallinipper bin a settin in de crotch er de sweet-gum.
1	Steader	Steader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	settin	settin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	crotch	crotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	de	de	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | Steader  coon and big Gallinipper | a settin |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent settin=Theme |
| 2 | **de** | present | Steader  coon and big Gallinipper *not said here* | sweet gum |  | de crotch er |  |  | 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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