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title: Dem cant gree how eh fuh dewide, an dem call een de Fox fuh jedge be… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem cant gree how eh fuh dewide, an dem call een de Fox fuh jedge between um. Who acts: Dem cant. 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 37

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Dem cant gree how eh fuh dewide, an dem call een de Fox fuh jedge between um.

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**Who acts:** Dem cant · **What happens:** gree · **To what, where:** dewide call de Fox

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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 cant), 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:pg76586:5:37
# text = Dem cant gree how eh fuh dewide, an dem call een de Fox fuh jedge between um.
1	Dem	dem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gree	gree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	dewide	dewide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	jedge	jedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gree** | infinitive | Dem cant | dewide call de Fox |  |  |  | jedge *obj* | 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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