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title: Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mornin, so eh kin hunt eh bittle befo de jew dry. Who acts: eh kin. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 105

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Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mornin, so eh kin hunt eh bittle befo de jew dry.

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**Who acts:** eh kin · **What happens:** hunt · **To what, where:** befo de jew, 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 (eh kin), 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:pg76586:4:105
# text = Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mornin, so eh kin hunt eh bittle befo de jew dry.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	roam	roam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	compound	_	_
24	jew	jew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | eh kin | befo de jew |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=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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