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title: De Cat an de Rat, dem fine one big piece er cheese een er closet. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Cat an de Rat, dem fine one big piece er cheese een er closet. 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 35

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De Cat an de Rat, dem fine one big piece er cheese een er closet.

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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:pg76586:5:35
# text = De Cat an de Rat, dem fine one big piece er cheese een er closet.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
14	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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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