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title: Den de blessed Jesus mek de good Lord sensible dat dis duh Jupter wu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de blessed Jesus mek de good Lord sensible dat dis duh Jupter wuh him hab sabe, an dat eh fetch um fuh show um eh seat wuh eh done prepare fur um. Who acts: Den, Lord. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 116

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Den de blessed Jesus mek de good Lord sensible dat dis duh Jupter wuh him hab sabe, an dat eh fetch um fuh show um eh seat wuh eh done prepare fur um.

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**Who acts:** Den, Lord · **What happens:** bless, dis, sabe, show, do, prepare · **To what, where:** Jesus mek, um eh seat, fur 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, Lord), 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:pg76586:14:116
# text = Den de blessed Jesus mek de good Lord sensible dat dis duh Jupter wuh him hab sabe, an dat eh fetch um fuh show um eh seat wuh eh done prepare fur um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	de	de	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sabe	sabe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
30	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | Den | Jesus mek |  |  |  | a dat eh fetch um *parataxis* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mek=Theme |
| 2 | **dis** |  | Lord |  |  |  |  | Jupter *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sabe** | infinitive | Lord |  |  |  |  | hab *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | infinitive |  | um eh seat |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seat=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** | participle |  | um eh seat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **prepare** | infinitive |  | fur um |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |

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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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