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title: Den eh come same lucker owl, an eh holler down you chimbly an eh tar… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh come same lucker owl, an eh holler down you chimbly an eh tarrify ebry body wen dem duh tun flour een de pot. Who acts: Den eh, wen dem. 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 pragm
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

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Den eh come same lucker owl, an eh holler down you chimbly an eh tarrify ebry body wen dem duh tun flour een de pot.

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**Who acts:** Den eh, wen dem · **What happens:** come, flour · **To what, where:** same lucker owl

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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 eh, wen dem), 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:pg76586:8:19
# text = Den eh come same lucker owl, an eh holler down you chimbly an eh tarrify ebry body wen dem duh tun flour een de pot.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	lucker	lucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	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	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	chimbly	chimbly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
16	tarrify	tarrify	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ebry	ebry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
24	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
26	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Den eh | same lucker owl |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location owl=Theme |
| 2 | **flour** |  | wen dem |  |  |  |  | pot *conj*; chimbly *property* | tree rules |

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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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