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title: De ole King, wen eh yeddy dis message, mek up eh mine say de noung K… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ole King, wen eh yeddy dis message, mek up eh mine say de noung King mus hab heap er sense, er else some wise man muster help um; an eh couldnt see how dat kin be, case all de ole an de wise people een de nation done kill. Who acts: wen eh, ole King, mine, some. A sentence of «Negro myths from th
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

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De ole King, wen eh yeddy dis message, mek up eh mine say de noung King mus hab heap er sense, er else some wise man muster help um; an eh couldnt see how dat kin be, case all de ole an de wise people een de nation done kill.

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**Who acts:** wen eh, ole King, mine, some, wise man muster, eh couldnt · **What happens:** message, mek up, say, muster, help, be · **To what, where:** de, um, een nation, kill · **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 (wen eh, ole King, mine, some), 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:pg76586:12:53
# text = De ole King, wen eh yeddy dis message, mek up eh mine say de noung King mus hab heap er sense, er else some wise man muster help um; an eh couldnt see how dat kin be, case all de ole an de wise people een de nation done kill.
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	advmod	_	_
2	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	noung	noung	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
28	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	muster	muster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
32	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
39	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	nsubj	_	_
45	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	flat:foreign	_	_
46	ole	ole	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
51	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	53	amod	_	_
52	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	51	flat	_	_
53	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
55	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **message** |  | wen eh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mek up** | infinitive | ole King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mine | de |  |  |  | noung mus hab heap  King and er sense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic |
| 4 | **muster** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | present | wise man muster | um |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive | a eh couldnt |  |  |  |  | case *obl*; dat kin *obj*; see *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **people** |  | all ole a de | een nation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | participle | wise people *not said here* | kill |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Eventuality |

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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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