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title: Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an swe… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an sweet, Buh Rabbit slip eh han een eh bag an onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf eh suck all de agg wuh bin fall ter him share befo dem retch de fork er de road way dem gwine part compny. Who acts: es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg. A sent
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 38

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Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an sweet, Buh Rabbit slip eh han een eh bag an onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf eh suck all de agg wuh bin fall ter him share befo dem retch de fork er de road way dem gwine part compny.

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**Who acts:** es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg, um · **What happens:** gwine, slip, suck, fall, share · **To what, where:** han eh bag

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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 (es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg), 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:pg76586:9:38
# text = Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an sweet, Buh Rabbit slip eh han een eh bag an onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf eh suck all de agg wuh bin fall ter him share befo dem retch de fork er de road way dem gwine part compny.
1	Dem	dem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
4	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	onbeknowinst	onbeknowin	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	compound	_	_
38	agg	agg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	wuh	wuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
42	ter	ter	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	retch	retch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	compound	_	_
49	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	47	conj	_	_
51	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	50	flat:foreign	_	_
52	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
55	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	compny	compny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gwine** |  | es |  |  |  |  | de agg *conj*; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip** | present | Dem pit um and bag and a gin gwine and de agg | han eh bag |  |  |  | Buh *nsubj* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 3 | **suck** | infinitive | a onbeknowinst ter |  |  |  |  | Buh *nsubj* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | all de agg |  |  |  |  | wuh bin *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **share** | present | um |  |  |  |  | befo dem retch and de fork | 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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