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title: De Debble, him kin tek all sorter shape fuh cahr out him plan an foo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Debble, him kin tek all sorter shape fuh cahr out him plan an fool people. Who acts: Debble shape cahr. 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 15

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De Debble, him kin tek all sorter shape fuh cahr out him plan an fool people.

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**Who acts:** Debble shape cahr · **What happens:** plan · **To what, where:** fool people

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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 (Debble shape cahr), 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:pg76586:8:15
# text = De Debble, him kin tek all sorter shape fuh cahr out him plan an fool people.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
5	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	sorter	sorter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
11	cahr	cahr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	plan	plan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present | Debble shape cahr out de | a fool people |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |

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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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