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title: Dat night dem camp een de en er de street, an halfer de soldier bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat night dem camp een de en er de street, an halfer de soldier bin on one side de cart, an tarruh half bin on tarruh side duh guade de body er de tief wuh head cut off. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 59

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Dat night dem camp een de en er de street, an halfer de soldier bin on one side de cart, an tarruh half bin on tarruh side duh guade de body er de tief wuh head cut off.

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**What happens:** cut off · **To what, where:** head, night dem camp

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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: 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:pg76586:7:59
# text = Dat night dem camp een de en er de street, an halfer de soldier bin on one side de cart, an tarruh half bin on tarruh side duh guade de body er de tief wuh head cut off.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat	_	_
7	en	en	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat	_	_
8	er	er	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	halfer	half	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
14	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	compound	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	_
31	guade	guade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	nsubj	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	flat:foreign	_	_
36	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | participle |  | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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