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title: Den eh gie de wud fuh pull. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh gie de wud fuh pull. Who acts: Den eh. 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 6

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Den eh gie de wud fuh pull.

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**Who acts:** Den eh · **What happens:** gie, pull · **To what, where:** de

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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), 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:pg76586:8:6
# text = Den eh gie de wud fuh pull.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	wud	wud	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gie** | present | Den eh | de |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | Den eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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