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title: “Den de blessed Jesus tell anurruh angel fuh bring me some milk an h… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Den de blessed Jesus tell anurruh angel fuh bring me some milk an honey fuh drink. Who acts: Den, Jesus, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 127

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“Den de blessed Jesus tell anurruh angel fuh bring me some milk an honey fuh drink.

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**Who acts:** Den, Jesus, you · **What happens:** bless, tell, bring · **To what, where:** angel, top dout crack · **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 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, Jesus, you), 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:pg76586:14:127
# text = “Den de blessed Jesus tell anurruh angel fuh bring me some milk an honey fuh drink.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	anurruh	anurruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
8	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | past | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Jesus |  | angel |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | top dout crack *= crack* |  |  |  | some milk *obj*; a honey fuh drink *obj* | tree rules |

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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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