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title: Den de blessed Master notus me, an eh say: ‘Dont fret, Jupter; dem s… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de blessed Master notus me, an eh say: ‘Dont fret, Jupter; dem speck duh you sin, but now dem all leff behine.’ Who acts: Den, eh, dem, 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 pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 132

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Den de blessed Master notus me, an eh say: ‘Dont fret, Jupter; dem speck duh you sin, but now dem all leff behine.’

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**Who acts:** Den, eh, dem, you · **What happens:** bless, say, speck, sin · **To what, where:** Master notus, Dont fret, dem · **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, eh, dem, 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:pg76586:14:132
# text = Den de blessed Master notus me, an eh say: ‘Dont fret, Jupter; dem speck duh you sin, but now dem all leff behine.’
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	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Dont	dont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fret	fret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	speck	speck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sin	sin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	leff	leff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	behine	behine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	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 | Master notus |  |  |  | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | Dont fret |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fret=Topic |
| 3 | **speck** | infinitive | dem | dem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sin** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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