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title: All dis time de tarruh fren duh squinch ehself up een de tree duh wa… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All dis time de tarruh fren duh squinch ehself up een de tree duh watch wuh bin gwine on. Who acts: een tree. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 104

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All dis time de tarruh fren duh squinch ehself up een de tree duh watch wuh bin gwine on.

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**Who acts:** een tree · **What happens:** watch, bin on · **To what, where:** gwine, fren duh squinch

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (een tree), 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:pg76586:6:104
# text = All dis time de tarruh fren duh squinch ehself up een de tree duh watch wuh bin gwine on.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
6	fren	fren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	squinch	squinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound	_	_
11	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | infinitive | een tree |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bin on** | infinitive | een tree *not said here* | gwine |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gwine=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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