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title: De nex day, jis befo de po man done task, de snake crawl up. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex day, jis befo de po man done task, de snake crawl up. Who acts: jis. 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 134

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De nex day, jis befo de po man done task, de snake crawl up.

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**Who acts:** jis · **What happens:** do, crawl up · **To what, where:** task

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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 (jis), 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:pg76586:4:134
# text = De nex day, jis befo de po man done task, de snake crawl up.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	advmod	_	_
2	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jis	ji	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
8	po	po	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
11	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | jis befo de man *not said here* | task and de snake |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 2 | **crawl up** | present | jis befo de man |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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