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title: De Bride faid fuh ax eh husbun bout de ting. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Bride faid fuh ax eh husbun bout de ting. Who acts: De. 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 43

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De Bride faid fuh ax eh husbun bout de ting.

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**Who acts:** De · **What happens:** fai · **To what, where:** fuh eh husbun bout

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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), 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:pg76586:8:43
# text = De Bride faid fuh ax eh husbun bout de ting.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bride	Bride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	faid	fai	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	husbun	husbun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	de	de	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | past | De | fuh eh husbun bout |  |  |  | de ting | 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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