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title: Dem bin bredder, an dem lib on two seprite road wuh jine at de fork. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem bin bredder, an dem lib on two seprite road wuh jine at de fork. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 116

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Dem bin bredder, an dem lib on two seprite road wuh jine at de fork.

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**To what, where:** Dem bin bredder

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:3:116
# text = Dem bin bredder, an dem lib on two seprite road wuh jine at de fork.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bredder	bredder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	seprite	seprite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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