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title: Dem wunt tell topper one anurrur, an de ting bodder de King berry bad. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem wunt tell topper one anurrur, an de ting bodder de King berry bad. Who acts: Dem wunt. 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 142

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Dem wunt tell topper one anurrur, an de ting bodder de King berry bad.

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**Who acts:** Dem wunt · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** topper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dem wunt), 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:pg76586:6:142
# text = Dem wunt tell topper one anurrur, an de ting bodder de King berry bad.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	anurrur	anurrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bodder	bodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dem wunt | topper |  |  |  | one anurrur and a de ting bodder and King berry *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent topper=Recipient anurrur=Topic |

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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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