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title: Den de Debble come outer de big house duh fetch er bag een eh han. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Debble come outer de big house duh fetch er bag een eh han. Who acts: Den, outer big house duh. 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 69

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Den de Debble come outer de big house duh fetch er bag een eh han.

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**Who acts:** Den, outer big house duh · **What happens:** come, fetch · **To what, where:** er bag

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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, outer big house duh), 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:pg76586:4:69
# text = Den de Debble come outer de big house duh fetch er bag een eh han.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	duh	duh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Den |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | present | outer big house duh | er bag |  |  |  | een eh han *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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