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title: Den de soldier wuh bin on de right han side er de cart, dem run ter… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de soldier wuh bin on de right han side er de cart, dem run ter de house way dem yeddy de screamin an de hollerin, an dem bus een de do an gone een fuh kill de whole fambly. Who acts: Den, ter. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, O
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

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Den de soldier wuh bin on de right han side er de cart, dem run ter de house way dem yeddy de screamin an de hollerin, an dem bus een de do an gone een fuh kill de whole fambly.

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**Who acts:** Den, ter · **What happens:** run, do · **To what, where:** gone een fuh kill

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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 (Den, ter), 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:pg76586:7:56
# text = Den de soldier wuh bin on de right han side er de cart, dem run ter de house way dem yeddy de screamin an de hollerin, an dem bus een de do an gone een fuh kill de whole fambly.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
5	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	nsubj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	screamin	screamin	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	conj	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	advmod	_	_
41	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
42	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Den |  |  |  |  | bin on right side er and de cart and dem *nsubj* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | ter | a gone een fuh kill |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=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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