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title: Den eh farruh tell um eh yent hab nuttne fuh gem cept sebbn loaf er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh farruh tell um eh yent hab nuttne fuh gem cept sebbn loaf er bread. Who acts: Den, nuttne. 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 21

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Den eh farruh tell um eh yent hab nuttne fuh gem cept sebbn loaf er bread.

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**Who acts:** Den, nuttne · **What happens:** tell, cept · **To what, where:** um · **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, nuttne), 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:pg76586:4:21
# text = Den eh farruh tell um eh yent hab nuttne fuh gem cept sebbn loaf er bread.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
3	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	sebbn	sebbn	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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* | infinitive | Den | um |  |  |  | eh yent hab and fuh gem cept *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient hab=Topic |
| 2 | **cept** |  | nuttne |  |  |  |  | loaf and er bread *appos* | 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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