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title: De Debble, him no faid gun, an eh dribe right up, an eh ax eh wife w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Debble, him no faid gun, an eh dribe right up, an eh ax eh wife wuh mek um run way. Who acts: Debble um. 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 81

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De Debble, him no faid gun, an eh dribe right up, an eh ax eh wife wuh mek um run way.

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**Who acts:** Debble um · **What happens:** run · **To what, where:** way

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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 um), 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:pg76586:8:81
# text = De Debble, him no faid gun, an eh dribe right up, an eh ax eh wife wuh mek um run way.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	faid	faid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dribe	dribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
21	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
22	um	um	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Debble um | way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=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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