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title: De King Crab see de Buzzud, an eh crawl up long side de boat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King Crab see de Buzzud, an eh crawl up long side de boat. Who acts: De King. 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 73

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De King Crab see de Buzzud, an eh crawl up long side de boat.

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**Who acts:** De King · **What happens:** see, crawl up · **To what, where:** Buzzud, long de boat · **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 (De King), 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:pg76586:2:73
# text = De King Crab see de Buzzud, an eh crawl up long side de boat.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	advmod	_	_
6	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | De King | Buzzud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crawl up** | infinitive |  | long de boat |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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