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title: De nex day de man watch fuh de snake. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex day de man watch fuh de snake. Who acts: De nex day. 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 156

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De nex day de man watch fuh de snake.

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**Who acts:** De nex day · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** fuh snake

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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 (De nex day), 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:pg76586:4:156
# text = De nex day de man watch fuh de snake.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | infinitive | De nex day | fuh snake |  |  |  | de man *nsubj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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