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title: De Lion and de Tiger an de Wolf an all dem animel wuh lib offer meat… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Lion and de Tiger an de Wolf an all dem animel wuh lib offer meat, dem ketch dem meat and dry um, an bring um an pit um way een de house. Who acts: Tiger animel lib, dem ketch. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, wi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

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De Lion and de Tiger an de Wolf an all dem animel wuh lib offer meat, dem ketch dem meat and dry um, an bring um an pit um way een de house.

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**Who acts:** Tiger animel lib, dem ketch · **What happens:** offer, meat, bring · **To what, where:** meat, um

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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 (Tiger animel lib, dem ketch), 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:pg76586:5:64
# text = De Lion and de Tiger an de Wolf an all dem animel wuh lib offer meat, dem ketch dem meat and dry um, an bring um an pit um way een de house.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	animel	animel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
33	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | Tiger animel lib | meat and dem meat and dry um |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |
| 2 | **meat** |  | dem ketch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | Tiger animel lib *not said here* | um |  |  |  | a um way *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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