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title: Den de hunter man call pon topper him Serbant fuh proobe wuh him bin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de hunter man call pon topper him Serbant fuh proobe wuh him bin say. Who acts: Den hunter man, bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 50

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Den de hunter man call pon topper him Serbant fuh proobe wuh him bin say.

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**Who acts:** Den hunter man, bin · **What happens:** call, say · **To what, where:** pon topper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den hunter man, bin), 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:pg76586:11:50
# text = Den de hunter man call pon topper him Serbant fuh proobe wuh him bin say.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	Serbant	Serbant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
11	proobe	proobe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive | Den hunter man | pon topper  bin |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent topper=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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