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title: Added close quotation mark to sentence: “Tenky, tenky, ... me git al… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Added close quotation mark to sentence: “Tenky, tenky, ... me git all dis money.” A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Days of the Week, sentence 6

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Added close quotation mark to sentence: “Tenky, tenky, ... me git all dis money.”

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** close quotation mark

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:17:6
# text = Added close quotation mark to sentence: “Tenky, tenky, ... me git all dis money.”
1	Added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tenky	tenky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | close quotation mark and sentence  Tenky  all dis money and tenky |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=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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