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title: De Dog sed down onder de tree, an watch um, an wait fur um fuh come… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Dog sed down onder de tree, an watch um, an wait fur um fuh come down. Who acts: De Dog. 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 92

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De Dog sed down onder de tree, an watch um, an wait fur um fuh come down.

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**Who acts:** De Dog · **What happens:** s down, come down · **To what, where:** tree

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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 Dog), 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:pg76586:4:92
# text = De Dog sed down onder de tree, an watch um, an wait fur um fuh come down.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sed	s	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	onder	onder	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s down** | past | De Dog | de's tree and a watch um and a fur um |  |  |  | onder *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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