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title: De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me bud… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me budder; me neber guine tell nobody way me git all dis money.” Who acts: De man, me. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 139

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De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me budder; me neber guine tell nobody way me git all dis money.”

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**Who acts:** De man, me · **What happens:** git, say, tell · **To what, where:** de money, Tenky, nobody way, me · **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, me), 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:pg76586:4:139
# text = De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me budder; me neber guine tell nobody way me git all dis money.”
1	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	tenky	tenky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tenky	tenky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	compound	_	_
20	budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	neber	neber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	compound	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
29	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
31	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** |  | De man | de money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Tenky and tenky and tenky and me budder |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tenky=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | me | nobody way | me |  |  | git *obj*; all dis money *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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