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title: Den dem trike fire an clap um ter de dry grass an leaf wuh dem bin p… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den dem trike fire an clap um ter de dry grass an leaf wuh dem bin pit een Buh Elephunt yez. 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 24

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Den dem trike fire an clap um ter de dry grass an leaf wuh dem bin pit een Buh Elephunt yez.

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**To what, where:** dem trike fire

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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: 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:pg76586:9:24
# text = Den dem trike fire an clap um ter de dry grass an leaf wuh dem bin pit een Buh Elephunt yez.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	trike	trike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	yez	yez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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