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title: Dem bin tek tun een clean de shoes. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem bin tek tun een clean de shoes. 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 138

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Dem bin tek tun een clean de shoes.

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**To what, where:** Dem tek tun

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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: 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:pg76586:6:138
# text = Dem bin tek tun een clean de shoes.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nmod	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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