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title: “De Debble,” added Daddy Cudjo, as he concluded this story, “duh de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “De Debble,” added Daddy Cudjo, as he concluded this story, “duh de wus ting een dis wul an de nex. Who acts: De Debble, Debble, de wus ting. 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 pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 93

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“De Debble,” added Daddy Cudjo, as he concluded this story, “duh de wus ting een dis wul an de nex.

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**Who acts:** De Debble, Debble, de wus ting · **What happens:** add, conclude, wul · **To what, where:** Daddy, story, de nex · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Debble, Debble, de wus ting), 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:pg76586:8:93
# text = “De Debble,” added Daddy Cudjo, as he concluded this story, “duh de wus ting een dis wul an de nex.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Cudjo	Cudjo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
19	wus	wus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	wul	wul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	compound	_	_
26	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | De Debble | Daddy |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daddy=Patient |
| 2 | **conclude** | past | Debble | this story |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **wul** *in a quote* |  | de wus ting | a de nex |  |  |  |  | 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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