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title: One time de Bluefinch, de Trasher, de Red-Bud, de Jay-Bud, de Pattri… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time de Bluefinch, de Trasher, de Red-Bud, de Jay-Bud, de Pattridge, and de Sparruh all come inter cohoot ter plant tetter[3] and see who kin raise de bigges. Who acts: One time. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2,
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 193

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One time de Bluefinch, de Trasher, de Red-Bud, de Jay-Bud, de Pattridge, and de Sparruh all come inter cohoot ter plant tetter\[3\] and see who kin raise de bigges.

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**Who acts:** One time · **What happens:** come, tetter, see, raise · **To what, where:** inter, 3 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One time), 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:pg76586:2:193
# text = One time de Bluefinch, de Trasher, de Red-Bud, de Jay-Bud, de Pattridge, and de Sparruh all come inter cohoot ter plant tetter[3] and see who kin raise de bigges.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bluefinch	Bluefinch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Trasher	Trasher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Bud	Bud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	advmod	_	_
24	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	cohoot	cohoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	tetter	tetter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	raise	raise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	compound	_	_
41	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | One time de Bluefinch | inter |  |  |  | Trasher de Jay Bud and Bud and de and Sparruh *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inter=Theme |
| 2 | **tetter** | infinitive |  | 3 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **raise** |  |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; de bigges *conj* | 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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