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title: De nex mornin wen de soldier wake up, de cart day day, but de body d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin wen de soldier wake up, de cart day day, but de body done gone. Who acts: de soldier, de, de body. 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 73

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De nex mornin wen de soldier wake up, de cart day day, but de body done gone.

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**Who acts:** de soldier, de, de body · **What happens:** wake up, day, do · **To what, where:** 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 (de soldier, de, de body), 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:pg76586:7:73
# text = De nex mornin wen de soldier wake up, de cart day day, but de body done gone.
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	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
11	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | present | de soldier | nex mornin wen  De and cart day day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wen=Patient |
| 2 | **day** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle | de body |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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