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title: Den de snake, him say: “Me sorry fuh you, an me willin fuh help you.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de snake, him say: “Me sorry fuh you, an me willin fuh help you.” Who acts: SNAKE, willin fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 124

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Den de snake, him say: “Me sorry fuh you, an me willin fuh help you.”

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**Who acts:** SNAKE, willin fuh · **What happens:** say, fuh, help · **To what, where:** Den snake, you · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNAKE, willin fuh), 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:pg76586:4:124
# text = Den de snake, him say: “Me sorry fuh you, an me willin fuh help you.”
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	willin	willin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | SNAKE | Den snake |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fuh** *in a quote* |  | SNAKE |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** *in a quote* | present | a willin fuh |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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