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title: De cunjur man so skade eh yent say nuttne cept pity ehself, an say:… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cunjur man so skade eh yent say nuttne cept pity ehself, an say: “Po Robin! Who acts: De cunjur man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 11

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De cunjur man so skade eh yent say nuttne cept pity ehself, an say: “Po Robin!

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**Who acts:** De cunjur man · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** nuttne cept pity, Po Robin · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De cunjur man), 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:pg76586:7:11
# text = De cunjur man so skade eh yent say nuttne cept pity ehself, an say: “Po Robin!
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	5	appos	_	_
7	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	ehself	ehself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Po	Po	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | De cunjur man  skade yent | nuttne cept pity  ehself |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pity=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Po Robin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent robin=Topic |

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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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