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title: De cunjur man rale glad, an de ting mek de King an all eh fren an de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cunjur man rale glad, an de ting mek de King an all eh fren an de serbant bliebe say eh kin cunjur fur true. Who acts: de serbant bliebe. 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 14

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De cunjur man rale glad, an de ting mek de King an all eh fren an de serbant bliebe say eh kin cunjur fur true.

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**Who acts:** de serbant bliebe · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** cunjur fur, De man rale · **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 serbant bliebe), 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:pg76586:7:14
# text = De cunjur man rale glad, an de ting mek de King an all eh fren an de serbant bliebe say eh kin cunjur fur true.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	compound	_	_
19	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bliebe	bliebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | a de serbant bliebe | cunjur fur |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fur=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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