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title: Bout middle der night de Dog hongry, an gone home fuh eat eh bittle. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bout middle der night de Dog hongry, an gone home fuh eat eh bittle. 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 98

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Bout middle der night de Dog hongry, an gone home fuh eat eh bittle.

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**What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** bittle

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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: 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:pg76586:4:98
# text = Bout middle der night de Dog hongry, an gone home fuh eat eh bittle.
1	Bout	Bout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	hongry	hongry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present |  | eh bittle |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=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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