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title: Not a ting leff fuh show way de house bin. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a ting leff fuh show way de house bin. Who acts: ting leff. 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 90

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Not a ting leff fuh show way de house bin.

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**Who acts:** ting leff · **What happens:** show · **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 (ting leff), 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:pg76586:8:90
# text = Not a ting leff fuh show way de house bin.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | infinitive | a ting leff | way |  |  |  | de house bin *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient bin=Topic |

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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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