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title: Bad plan fuh people fuh hunt trouble wen trouble yent der hunt dem. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bad plan fuh people fuh hunt trouble wen trouble yent der hunt dem. Who acts: Bad fuh people. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 101

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Bad plan fuh people fuh hunt trouble wen trouble yent der hunt dem.

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**Who acts:** Bad fuh people · **What happens:** hunt · **To what, where:** wen trouble yent, dem

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad fuh people), 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:pg76586:4:101
# text = Bad plan fuh people fuh hunt trouble wen trouble yent der hunt dem.
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **hunt** | present | Bad fuh people | wen trouble yent |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | infinitive | Bad fuh people *not said here* | dem |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dem=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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