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title: De man say: “No.” De snake quire: “You hab wife?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man say: “No.” De snake quire: “You hab wife?” Who acts: De man, No., You. 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 127

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De man say: “No.” De snake quire: “You hab wife?”

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**Who acts:** De man, No., You · **What happens:** say, quire, wife · **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 (De man, No., 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:pg76586:4:127
# text = De man say: “No.” De snake quire: “You hab wife?”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	quire	quire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | De man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **quire** |  | No. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wife** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | 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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