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title: De man tenk um, an ax um how eh guine help um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man tenk um, an ax um how eh guine help um. Who acts: eh guine. 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 125

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De man tenk um, an ax um how eh guine help um.

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**Who acts:** eh guine · **What happens:** help · **To what, where:** um, tenk um

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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 (eh guine), 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:pg76586:4:125
# text = De man tenk um, an ax um how eh guine help um.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	tenk	tenk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | eh guine | um |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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