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title: “De man wuh trus in ehself,” moralized Daddy Sandy, “guine fail; wil… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “De man wuh trus in ehself,” moralized Daddy Sandy, “guine fail; wile dem dat wait topper de Lord will hab perwision mek fur um.” Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

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“De man wuh trus in ehself,” moralized Daddy Sandy, “guine fail; wile dem dat wait topper de Lord will hab perwision mek fur um.”

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** moralize, wile, hab · **To what, where:** man trus, dem, perwision · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:3:41
# text = “De man wuh trus in ehself,” moralized Daddy Sandy, “guine fail; wile dem dat wait topper de Lord will hab perwision mek fur um.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
5	trus	trus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ehself	ehself	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	moralized	moralize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sandy	Sandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wile	wile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	de	de	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	perwision	perwision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moralize** *speech: other* | participle |  | man trus in ehself |  |  |  | Daddy Sandy *obl:agent* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wile** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | dem |  |  |  | dat wait topper *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hab** *in a quote* | future | Lord | perwision |  |  |  | mek fur um *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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