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title: Den eh pull out de silber and spread um on de table. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh pull out de silber and spread um on de table. Who acts: Den. 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 145

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Den eh pull out de silber and spread um on de table.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** pull out, spread · **To what, where:** de, um, de table

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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 (Den), 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:pg76586:4:145
# text = Den eh pull out de silber and spread um on de table.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	silber	silber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | infinitive | Den | de |  |  |  | silber *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | past | Den *not said here* | um |  | de table |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent um=Theme on table=Destination |

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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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