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title: Dem call fuh er barrel, an dem tek de coon an pit um een an head um… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem call fuh er barrel, an dem tek de coon an pit um een an head um up complete, so nobody kin see wuh day eenside. Who acts: Dem, nobody kin. 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 pragma
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 109

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Dem call fuh er barrel, an dem tek de coon an pit um een an head um up complete, so nobody kin see wuh day eenside.

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**Who acts:** Dem, nobody kin · **What happens:** call, um up, see · **To what, where:** barrel, wuh day eenside · **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 (Dem, nobody kin), 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:pg76586:8:109
# text = Dem call fuh er barrel, an dem tek de coon an pit um een an head um up complete, so nobody kin see wuh day eenside.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
4	er	er	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	compound	_	_
24	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eenside	eenside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Dem | barrel |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **um up** | infinitive | Dem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present | nobody kin | wuh day eenside |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eenside=Stimulus |

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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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