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title: De man look condemn, but eh mek answer, say: “Him yent.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man look condemn, but eh mek answer, say: “Him yent.” Who acts: De 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 17

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De man look condemn, but eh mek answer, say: “Him yent.”

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**Who acts:** De man · **What happens:** look, condemn, say · **To what, where:** Him yent · **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 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:pg76586:7:17
# text = De man look condemn, but eh mek answer, say: “Him yent.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	condemn	condemn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	eh	eh	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | De man |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **condemn** | present | De man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | De man *not said here* | Him yent |  |  |  | eh mek answer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yent=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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