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title: All de time eh duh watch Buh Rooster. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All de time eh duh watch Buh Rooster. Who acts: time. 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 47

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All de time eh duh watch Buh Rooster.

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**Who acts:** time · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** Buh Rooster

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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 (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:pg76586:2:47
# text = All de time eh duh watch Buh Rooster.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	3	appos	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | infinitive | all time | Buh Rooster |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rooster=Theme |

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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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