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title: Fros fall, an de animel biggin fuh tink bout dem perwision wuh dem b… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fros fall, an de animel biggin fuh tink bout dem perwision wuh dem bin lay up een de house. Who acts: Fros, de animel biggin, dem bin. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 75

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Fros fall, an de animel biggin fuh tink bout dem perwision wuh dem bin lay up een de house.

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**Who acts:** Fros, de animel biggin, dem bin · **What happens:** fall, tink, lay up · **To what, where:** dem perwision, een house

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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 (Fros, de animel biggin, dem bin), 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:pg76586:5:75
# text = Fros fall, an de animel biggin fuh tink bout dem perwision wuh dem bin lay up een de house.
1	Fros	fro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
6	animel	animel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	biggin	biggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	perwision	perwision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	amod	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Fros |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tink** | infinitive | a de animel biggin | dem perwision |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay up** | present | dem bin | een house |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Result |

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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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