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title: Dem wuk on tel de sun biggin fuh lean een de wes. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem wuk on tel de sun biggin fuh lean een de wes. Who acts: Dem wuk. 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 148

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Dem wuk on tel de sun biggin fuh lean een de wes.

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**Who acts:** Dem wuk · **What happens:** lean · **To what, where:** een de wes, de sun biggin

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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 wuk), 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:pg76586:5:148
# text = Dem wuk on tel de sun biggin fuh lean een de wes.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wes	we	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | infinitive | Dem wuk | een de wes |  | de sun biggin  tel |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme on biggin=Destination |

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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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