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title: Dem tink two man fetch um,--one duh ride er white horse, an de edder… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem tink two man fetch um,--one duh ride er white horse, an de edder duh ride er black horse. Who acts: Dem, de edder. 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 71

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Dem tink two man fetch um,--one duh ride er white horse, an de edder duh ride er black horse.

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**Who acts:** Dem, de edder · **What happens:** tink, fetch, ride · **To what, where:** two man, um, black horse

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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, de edder), 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:pg76586:7:71
# text = Dem tink two man fetch um,--one duh ride er white horse, an de edder duh ride er black horse.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tink	tink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	edder	edder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | infinitive | Dem | two man |  |  |  | ride white horse *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | Dem *not said here* | um |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | infinitive | a de edder *not said here* | black horse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

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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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