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title: Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money, an me tell you wuh you do ter-morruh. Who acts: wife, Dat snake, 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 152

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Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money, an me tell you wuh you do ter-morruh.

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**Who acts:** wife, Dat snake, you · **What happens:** say, hab, tell, do · **To what, where:** eh belly, you, ter · **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 (wife, Dat snake, 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:pg76586:4:152
# text = Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money, an me tell you wuh you do ter-morruh.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hab	hab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	dep	_	_
15	silber	silber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	morruh	morruh	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Den  eh's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hab** *in a quote* | must | Dat snake | eh belly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Den  eh's wife *= wife* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you | ter |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Eventuality |

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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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