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title: De noung King tun sich er smart answer, wid de help er eh farruh, da… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De noung King tun sich er smart answer, wid de help er eh farruh, dat de ole King couldnt mek out wuh time fuh gone fuh de fat hog; an so eh gib up, an de noung King, befo long, come an tun um out an tek eh office. Who acts: De, King tun sich, time fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia co
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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De noung King tun sich er smart answer, wid de help er eh farruh, dat de ole King couldnt mek out wuh time fuh gone fuh de fat hog; an so eh gib up, an de noung King, befo long, come an tun um out an tek eh office.

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**Who acts:** De, King tun sich, time fuh · **What happens:** noung, help, go, gib up, come out · **To what, where:** er, fuh de fat hog, de noung, tun 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, King tun sich, time fuh), 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:pg76586:12:55
# text = De noung King tun sich er smart answer, wid de help er eh farruh, dat de ole King couldnt mek out wuh time fuh gone fuh de fat hog; an so eh gib up, an de noung King, befo long, come an tun um out an tek eh office.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	noung	noung	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	er	er	X	GW	_	12	obj	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
15	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	de	de	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	compound	_	_
30	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	gib	gib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	noung	noung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	befo	befo	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **noung** | past | De |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | King tun sich er smart answer and wid de | er and dat de ole King couldnt and time fuh |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go** | participle | time fuh *not said here* | fuh de fat hog |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hog=Theme |
| 4 | **gib up** | infinitive | De *not said here* | a de noung |  |  |  | eh *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come out** | infinitive | De *not said here* | a tun um |  |  |  | a eh office *obl* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient um=Result |

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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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