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title: Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh muss… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh mussne tell eh wife way eh git de money. Who acts: Den snake, money, mussne. 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 132

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Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh mussne tell eh wife way eh git de money.

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**Who acts:** Den snake, money, mussne · **What happens:** tell, day · **To what, where:** um eh, eh wife way · **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 (Den snake, money, mussne), 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:pg76586:4:132
# text = Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh mussne tell eh wife way eh git de money.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	nex	nex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mussne	mussne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Den snake | um eh and guine gen um |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient |
| 2 | **day** |  | money |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | eh mussne | eh wife way |  |  |  | git *obl*; de money *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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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