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title: De King tek um say eh bin mean de bud, an eh confidance rise, an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King tek um say eh bin mean de bud, an eh confidance rise, an eh mek answer: “You right, me yiz hab one robin een me hat; an becase you tell true, me gwine gie you six day mo fuh fine out who tief de Ring.” Who acts: De tek um, eh bin, you, me gwine. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia co
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 13

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De King tek um say eh bin mean de bud, an eh confidance rise, an eh mek answer: “You right, me yiz hab one robin een me hat; an becase you tell true, me gwine gie you six day mo fuh fine out who tief de Ring.”

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**Who acts:** De tek um, eh bin, you, me gwine, six day mo · **What happens:** say, mean, tell, gie, tief · **To what, where:** de bud, becase, you · **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 tek um, eh bin, you, me gwine), 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:pg76586:7:13
# text = De King tek um say eh bin mean de bud, an eh confidance rise, an eh mek answer: “You right, me yiz hab one robin een me hat; an becase you tell true, me gwine gie you six day mo fuh fine out who tief de Ring.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	confidance	confidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	mek	mek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	yiz	yiz	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
28	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
31	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
33	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	becase	becase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	compound	_	_
42	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
48	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	_
49	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
53	de	de	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 tek um |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | eh bin | de bud and a eh confidance rise and a eh mek answer |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | a becase *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent becase=Recipient |
| 4 | **gie** *in a quote* | present | me gwine | you |  |  |  | six day mo *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tief** *in a quote* |  | six day mo |  |  |  |  | de Ring | 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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