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title: De Dog so close behine um eh snap at um an bite off eh tail. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Dog so close behine um eh snap at um an bite off eh tail. Who acts: De. 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 87

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De Dog so close behine um eh snap at um an bite off eh tail.

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** snap · **To what, where:** 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 (De), 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:pg76586:4:87
# text = De Dog so close behine um eh snap at um an bite off eh tail.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	behine	behine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	snap	snap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | present | De | a bite |  | um |  | off eh tail; close um eh *nsubj* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bite=Patient off tail=Co-Patient |

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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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