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title: Den dem tell um say de dinner done ober; dat dem jist come from day,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den dem tell um say de dinner done ober; dat dem jist come from day, an dat dem bin hab plenty er good bittle fuh eat. Who acts: Den dem, um, de dinner, dem jist. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 132

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Den dem tell um say de dinner done ober; dat dem jist come from day, an dat dem bin hab plenty er good bittle fuh eat.

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**Who acts:** Den dem, um, de dinner, dem jist · **What happens:** den, tell, say, do, come, eat · **To what, where:** de dinner, ober, hab plenty · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den dem, um, de dinner, dem jist), 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:pg76586:3:132
# text = Den dem tell um say de dinner done ober; dat dem jist come from day, an dat dem bin hab plenty er good bittle fuh eat.
1	Den	den	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	compound	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	jist	jist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	er	er	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	appos	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **den** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | um | de dinner |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | participle | de dinner *not said here* | ober |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | present | dem jist | a hab plenty |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | dem jist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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