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title: De Dog day right arter um duh try fuh bite um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Dog day right arter um duh try fuh bite um. Who acts: day arter. 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 85

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De Dog day right arter um duh try fuh bite um.

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**Who acts:** day arter · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** fuh bite um

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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 (day arter), 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:pg76586:4:85
# text = De Dog day right arter um duh try fuh bite um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	um	um	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	5	appos	_	_
7	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive | day arter | fuh bite um |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality |

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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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