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title: DE CAT, DE RAT, DE CHEESE, AN DE FOX. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: DE CAT, DE RAT, DE CHEESE, AN DE FOX. 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 34

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DE CAT, DE RAT, DE CHEESE, AN DE FOX.

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**To what, where:** DE RAT

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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:pg76586:5:34
# text = DE CAT, DE RAT, DE CHEESE, AN DE FOX.
1	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	CAT	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	RAT	RAT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	DE	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	CHEESE	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	AN	AN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	DE	DE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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