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title: Wid dat, de King mek one er him serbant ketch de gobbler an rip open… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wid dat, de King mek one er him serbant ketch de gobbler an rip open eh craw, an day, sho nuff, was de Ring. Who acts: Wid King mek, rip, open eh craw. 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 t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 32

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Wid dat, de King mek one er him serbant ketch de gobbler an rip open eh craw, an day, sho nuff, was de Ring.

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**Who acts:** Wid King mek, rip, open eh craw · **What happens:** er, craw, be · **To what, where:** man, de Ring

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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 (Wid King mek, rip, open eh craw), 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:pg76586:7:32
# text = Wid dat, de King mek one er him serbant ketch de gobbler an rip open eh craw, an day, sho nuff, was de Ring.
1	Wid	Wid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	er	er	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	serbant	serbant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	craw	craw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	24	compound	_	_
24	nuff	nuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **er** | present | Wid King mek | man |  |  |  | serbant de gobbler *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **craw** |  | rip |  |  |  |  | sho nuff *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a open eh craw and a day | de Ring |  |  |  |  | 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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