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title: De King tell um eh bin dis de man eh duh hunt fur, an eh want um fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King tell um eh bin dis de man eh duh hunt fur, an eh want um fuh fine eh Ring. Who acts: De, eh. 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 147

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De King tell um eh bin dis de man eh duh hunt fur, an eh want um fuh fine eh Ring.

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**Who acts:** De, eh · **What happens:** tell, hunt, want · **To what, where:** um, eh, fur · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, eh), 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:pg76586:6:147
# text = De King tell um eh bin dis de man eh duh hunt fur, an eh want um fuh fine eh Ring.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eh	eh	PRON	GW	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind|Typo=Yes	3	iobj	_	_
11	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | De | um | eh |  |  | eh bin dis *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | infinitive | De *not said here* | fur |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | a eh | um |  |  |  | fine eh Ring *xcomp* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot um=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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