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title: One day de Buckra man gen er big dinner, an eh eenwite heap er fren… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day de Buckra man gen er big dinner, an eh eenwite heap er fren ter him house. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 104

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One day de Buckra man gen er big dinner, an eh eenwite heap er fren ter him house.

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**To what, where:** One day

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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 8. 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:pg76586:8:104
# text = One day de Buckra man gen er big dinner, an eh eenwite heap er fren ter him house.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	de	de	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	er	er	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	eenwite	eenwite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	14	appos	_	_
16	fren	fren	X	JJ	_	15	goeswith	_	_
17	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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