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title: De money pit up, an de fren call one boy, wuh bin er wuk bout de lot… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De money pit up, an de fren call one boy, wuh bin er wuk bout de lot, an dem sen um der wood fuh ketch one coon. Who acts: De money, de fren. 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 pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 106

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De money pit up, an de fren call one boy, wuh bin er wuk bout de lot, an dem sen um der wood fuh ketch one coon.

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**Who acts:** De money, de fren · **What happens:** pit up, call · **To what, where:** one boy · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De money, de fren), 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:pg76586:8:106
# text = De money pit up, an de fren call one boy, wuh bin er wuk bout de lot, an dem sen um der wood fuh ketch one coon.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pit	pit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	er	er	X	GW	_	9	parataxis	_	_
16	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
28	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pit up** | infinitive | De money |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a de fren |  | one boy |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient |

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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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