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title: Dem Cooter blan come outer de water wen de tide high, an dig hole ee… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem Cooter blan come outer de water wen de tide high, an dig hole een de san, an lay dem agg, an kibber dem ober so crow an ting cant fine um. Who acts: Dem Cooter blan. 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 36

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Dem Cooter blan come outer de water wen de tide high, an dig hole een de san, an lay dem agg, an kibber dem ober so crow an ting cant fine um.

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**Who acts:** Dem Cooter blan · **What happens:** come, crow · **To what, where:** outer de water wen, cant fine um

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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 Cooter blan), 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:pg76586:9:36
# text = Dem Cooter blan come outer de water wen de tide high, an dig hole een de san, an lay dem agg, an kibber dem ober so crow an ting cant fine um.
1	Dem	Dem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blan	blan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
10	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dig	dig	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	_
18	san	san	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	lay	lay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	kibber	kibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	crow	crow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Dem Cooter blan | outer de water wen and de tide and a dig hole and a lay dem agg and a dem ober |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wen=Theme |
| 2 | **crow** | infinitive | Dem Cooter blan *not said here* | a cant fine um |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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