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title: De soldier wuh camp on de leff, dem say de man wuh ride on er white… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De soldier wuh camp on de leff, dem say de man wuh ride on er white horse mus er tief um; an de soldier wuh camp on de right, dem say de man wuh ride on er black horse him mus er tief um. Who acts: De camp, soldier camp, de man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacul
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 74

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De soldier wuh camp on de leff, dem say de man wuh ride on er white horse mus er tief um; an de soldier wuh camp on de right, dem say de man wuh ride on er black horse him mus er tief um.

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**Who acts:** De camp, soldier camp, de man · **What happens:** say, ride · **To what, where:** ride, de leff, dem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 camp, soldier camp, de man), 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:pg76586:7:74
# text = De soldier wuh camp on de leff, dem say de man wuh ride on er white horse mus er tief um; an de soldier wuh camp on de right, dem say de man wuh ride on er black horse him mus er tief um.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
4	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	19	appos	_	_
21	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
28	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	de	de	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	compound	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	_
38	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
44	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	appos	_	_
46	tief	tief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | De camp | de man's ride |  | de leff and dem |  | on er's white horse mus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ride=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | soldier camp on right | dem |  |  |  | de man's ride *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ride=Topic |
| 3 | **ride** |  | de man |  |  |  |  | on er's white horse mus | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent on=obl |
| 4 | **ride** |  | de man |  |  |  |  | on er black horse  horse and mus | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent on=obl |

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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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