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title: Dem faid fuh bus een de do, an dem all gree fuh leff. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem faid fuh bus een de do, an dem all gree fuh leff. Who acts: Dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 100

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Dem faid fuh bus een de do, an dem all gree fuh leff.

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** fai, do, gree · **To what, where:** fuh bus een, dem

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem), 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:pg76586:5:100
# text = Dem faid fuh bus een de do, an dem all gree fuh leff.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | Dem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | Dem *not said here* | fuh bus een |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gree** | present | Dem *not said here* | a dem |  |  |  | fuh leff *obj*; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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