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title: Den de Alligatur say: “Ef you prommus no fuh tell who cahr you ober… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de Alligatur say: “Ef you prommus no fuh tell who cahr you ober de ribber, me will pit you cross.” Who acts: Den, you, fuh tell. 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 ev
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 14

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Den de Alligatur say: “Ef you prommus no fuh tell who cahr you ober de ribber, me will pit you cross.”

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**Who acts:** Den, you, fuh tell · **What happens:** say, ribber, pit, cross · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Den, you, fuh tell), 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:pg76586:5:14
# text = Den de Alligatur say: “Ef you prommus no fuh tell who cahr you ober de ribber, me will pit you cross.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	flat	_	_
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
14	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	ober	ober	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pit	pit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Den |  |  |  |  | Ef prommus *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ribber** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pit** *in a quote* | future | no fuh tell |  |  |  |  | me *nsubj* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cross** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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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