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title: Bad plan fur stranger fuh meddle long tarruh people bidness. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bad plan fur stranger fuh meddle long tarruh people bidness. 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 32

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Bad plan fur stranger fuh meddle long tarruh people bidness.

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**What happens:** meddle · **To what, where:** long tarruh

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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: 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:pg76586:5:32
# text = Bad plan fur stranger fuh meddle long tarruh people bidness.
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	meddle	meddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	bidness	bidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meddle** | present |  | long tarruh and people bidness |  |  |  |  | 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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