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title: De nex mornin, wen one er dem serbant come down wid de King shoes, d… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin, wen one er dem serbant come down wid de King shoes, de cunjur man pint eh finger at um an eh say: “You duh one er de tief.” Who acts: De nex mornin, de, eh, You. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

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De nex mornin, wen one er dem serbant come down wid de King shoes, de cunjur man pint eh finger at um an eh say: “You duh one er de tief.”

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**Who acts:** De nex mornin, de, eh, You · **What happens:** come down, finger, say, duh · **To what, where:** pint eh finger, um, er de tief · **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 nex mornin, de, eh, You), 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:pg76586:7:16
# text = De nex mornin, wen one er dem serbant come down wid de King shoes, de cunjur man pint eh finger at um an eh say: “You duh one er de tief.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	nsubj	_	_
18	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	duh	duh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	compound	_	_
35	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | present | De nex mornin and wen and er dem serbant |  |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **finger** |  | de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | pint eh finger *not said here* |  | um |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **duh** *in a quote* | present | You | er de tief |  |  |  |  | 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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