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title: Wen de noung King git de message, eh tun dis answer: “Tell de ole Ki… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen de noung King git de message, eh tun dis answer: “Tell de ole King say me hab er fat barruh een de pen, an him mus come fur um; but eh musnt come een de day, ner eh musnt come fuh um een de night.” Who acts: mus, musnt, eh musnt. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the ver
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 52

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Wen de noung King git de message, eh tun dis answer: “Tell de ole King say me hab er fat barruh een de pen, an him mus come fur um; but eh musnt come een de day, ner eh musnt come fuh um een de night.”

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**Who acts:** mus, musnt, eh musnt · **What happens:** tell, say, come, eh · **To what, where:** de, KING, me, fur um, Wen de message · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mus, musnt, eh musnt), 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:pg76586:12:52
# text = Wen de noung King git de message, eh tun dis answer: “Tell de ole King say me hab er fat barruh een de pen, an him mus come fur um; but eh musnt come een de day, ner eh musnt come fuh um een de night.”
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	noung	noung	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	barruh	barruh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
25	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	amod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat	_	_
27	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
31	mus	mu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
33	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	musnt	musnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
40	een	een	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	eh	eh	X	FW	_	46	compound	_	_
46	musnt	musnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
48	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	47	discourse	_	_
49	um	um	X	FW	_	52	compound	_	_
50	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	flat:foreign	_	_
51	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	49	flat:foreign	_	_
52	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | de | KING |  |  | ole King *iobj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | fat een pen *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme pen=Manner |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | mus | fur um |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme |
| 4 | **eh** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present | musnt |  |  |  |  | een *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | eh musnt |  |  |  | day; night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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