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title: Den eh look lucker white deer, an eh fly tru de wood, dout mek no no… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh look lucker white deer, an eh fly tru de wood, dout mek no noise, fuh skade people duh walk long de big road. Who acts: Den, skade people. 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 pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 18

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Den eh look lucker white deer, an eh fly tru de wood, dout mek no noise, fuh skade people duh walk long de big road.

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**Who acts:** Den, skade people · **What happens:** look, walk · **To what, where:** lucker, de big road

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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 (Den, skade people), 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:pg76586:8:18
# text = Den eh look lucker white deer, an eh fly tru de wood, dout mek no noise, fuh skade people duh walk long de big road.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dout	dout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	compound	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | Den | lucker |  |  |  | dout mek | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lucker=Attribute |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | skade people | de big road |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory |

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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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