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title: Dem bin quaintun wid one anurrur; an, weneber dem meet, dem nusen fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem bin quaintun wid one anurrur; an, weneber dem meet, dem nusen fuh pass de time er day. Who acts: Dem bin quaintun. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 13

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Dem bin quaintun wid one anurrur; an, weneber dem meet, dem nusen fuh pass de time er day.

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**Who acts:** Dem bin quaintun · **What happens:** wi · **To what, where:** one anurrur

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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 (Dem bin quaintun), 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:pg76586:9:13
# text = Dem bin quaintun wid one anurrur; an, weneber dem meet, dem nusen fuh pass de time er day.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	quaintun	quaintun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	anurrur	anurrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	weneber	weneber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	meet	meet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	nusen	nusen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	er	er	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | past | Dem bin quaintun | one anurrur |  |  |  | a weneber dem meet  pass time  er day and dem *parataxis* | 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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