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title: De Deer, de Elephant, de Cow, dem gedder an pack way grass an leaf. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Deer, de Elephant, de Cow, dem gedder an pack way grass an leaf. 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 63

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De Deer, de Elephant, de Cow, dem gedder an pack way grass an leaf.

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**To what, where:** way grass

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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:pg76586:5:63
# text = De Deer, de Elephant, de Cow, dem gedder an pack way grass an leaf.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	de	de	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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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