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title: Dem gone an ketch de biggis een de gang, an brung um ter de cunjur m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem gone an ketch de biggis een de gang, an brung um ter de cunjur man. Who acts: Dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 25

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Dem gone an ketch de biggis een de gang, an brung um ter de cunjur man.

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**Who acts:** Dem · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** ketch

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem), 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:pg76586:7:25
# text = Dem gone an ketch de biggis een de gang, an brung um ter de cunjur man.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	biggis	biggis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	amod	_	_
7	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
9	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	brung	brung	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
16	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Dem | a ketch |  |  |  | biggis gang *obj* | tree rules |

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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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