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title: One day de King notus er strange man duh walk bout him gaden, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day de King notus er strange man duh walk bout him gaden, an eh sen an hab um brung ter um. Who acts: day King notus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 145

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One day de King notus er strange man duh walk bout him gaden, an eh sen an hab um brung ter um.

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**Who acts:** day King notus · **What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** gaden

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day King notus), 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:pg76586:6:145
# text = One day de King notus er strange man duh walk bout him gaden, an eh sen an hab um brung ter um.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	notus	notus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	bout	bout	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	gaden	gaden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	brung	brung	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
22	ter	ter	X	FW	_	23	compound	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | infinitive | day King notus | gaden |  |  |  | bout man; strange man *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gaden=Trajectory |

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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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