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title: Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash close by um dout worry de Yaller Jacket, an eh leff um day, an eh tan off an watch um. Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, with its dep
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 124

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Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash close by um dout worry de Yaller Jacket, an eh leff um day, an eh tan off an watch um.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** hunt · **To what, where:** tel

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den), 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:pg76586:9:124
# text = Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash close by um dout worry de Yaller Jacket, an eh leff um day, an eh tan off an watch um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
8	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Jacket	Jacket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	dout	dout	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	de	de	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Jacket	Jacket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tan	tan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Den  eh | tel |  |  |  | fine Yaller Jacket nes  a eh de calabash dout worry de Yaller and a eh leff um day  a eh tan off a watch um *obj* | 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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