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title: Steader one er dem tan fur help fight um, eh leff eh fren an clime o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steader one er dem tan fur help fight um, eh leff eh fren an clime one tree. Who acts: Steader er dem, leff eh fren. 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 98

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Steader one er dem tan fur help fight um, eh leff eh fren an clime one tree.

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**Who acts:** Steader er dem, leff eh fren · **What happens:** help, fight · **To what, where:** leff eh fren, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Steader er dem, leff eh fren), 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:pg76586:6:98
# text = Steader one er dem tan fur help fight um, eh leff eh fren an clime one tree.
1	Steader	Steader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	tan	tan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	eh	eh	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
14	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Steader er dem | leff eh fren and a clime  one tree |  |  |  | tan fur *nsubj* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fren=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | infinitive | leff eh fren and a clime  one tree *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-Agent |

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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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