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title: Den Buh Monkey mek up eh mine fuh go teh de Debble, an fine out from… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Buh Monkey mek up eh mine fuh go teh de Debble, an fine out from um. Who acts: Den, mine. 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 61

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Den Buh Monkey mek up eh mine fuh go teh de Debble, an fine out from um.

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**Who acts:** Den, mine · **What happens:** mek up, go

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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, mine), 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:pg76586:4:61
# text = Den Buh Monkey mek up eh mine fuh go teh de Debble, an fine out from um.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	mek	mek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	teh	teh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mek up** | infinitive | Den |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | mine |  |  |  |  | de Debble; teh *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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