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title: Dem keep on bague, tel, at lenk, Buh Rooster gone in tarruh room, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem keep on bague, tel, at lenk, Buh Rooster gone in tarruh room, an eh tek de shade offer de lamp. Who acts: Dem, lenk. 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 157

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Dem keep on bague, tel, at lenk, Buh Rooster gone in tarruh room, an eh tek de shade offer de lamp.

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**Who acts:** Dem, lenk · **What happens:** keep, offer · **To what, where:** bague

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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 (Dem, lenk), 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:pg76586:3:157
# text = Dem keep on bague, tel, at lenk, Buh Rooster gone in tarruh room, an eh tek de shade offer de lamp.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lenk	lenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Dem |  |  | bague and tel |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on bague=Location |
| 2 | **offer** |  | lenk |  |  |  |  | de lamp *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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