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title: De nex mornin wen Buh Lion zamine eh trap, eh fine de tief done ketch. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin wen Buh Lion zamine eh trap, eh fine de tief done ketch. Who acts: fine de tief. 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 50

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De nex mornin wen Buh Lion zamine eh trap, eh fine de tief done ketch.

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**Who acts:** fine de tief · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ketch, nex mornin wen

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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 (fine de tief), 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:pg76586:7:50
# text = De nex mornin wen Buh Lion zamine eh trap, eh fine de tief done ketch.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	zamine	zamine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | fine de tief *not said here* | ketch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ketch=Eventuality |

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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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