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title: De soldier, dem berry glad fuh git de rum. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De soldier, dem berry glad fuh git de rum. Who acts: dem berry. 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 70

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De soldier, dem berry glad fuh git de rum.

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**Who acts:** dem berry · **What happens:** git · **To what, where:** De soldier

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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 berry), 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:pg76586:7:70
# text = De soldier, dem berry glad fuh git de rum.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rum	rum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** |  | dem berry |  |  |  |  | de rum | 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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