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title: De nex mornin wen de tarrur serbant fetch de King shoes down fuh cle… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin wen de tarrur serbant fetch de King shoes down fuh clean um, de cunjur man pint him finger at um an eh say: “You duh nudder one er dem tief.” Who acts: de, de cunjur man, eh, You. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Openi
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 18

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De nex mornin wen de tarrur serbant fetch de King shoes down fuh clean um, de cunjur man pint him finger at um an eh say: “You duh nudder one er dem tief.”

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**Who acts:** de, de cunjur man, eh, You · **What happens:** fetch, pint, say, nudder · **To what, where:** de, um, nex mornin wen · **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, de cunjur man, 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:pg76586:7:18
# text = De nex mornin wen de tarrur serbant fetch de King shoes down fuh clean um, de cunjur man pint him finger at um an eh say: “You duh nudder one er dem tief.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
6	tarrur	tarrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
9	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
18	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pint	pint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	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	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	nudder	nudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** |  | de |  |  |  |  | King shoes and fuh clean um *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pint** | past | de cunjur man | de |  | um |  | finger *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh | um *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic |
| 4 | **nudder** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  | dem tief *conj* | 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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