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title: De man rale skade, but eh schway say him yent know nuttne bout de Ri… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man rale skade, but eh schway say him yent know nuttne bout de Ring. Who acts: De man, yent. 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 19

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De man rale skade, but eh schway say him yent know nuttne bout de Ring.

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**Who acts:** De man, yent · **What happens:** say, know · **To what, where:** eh, nuttne bout · **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, yent), 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:pg76586:7:19
# text = De man rale skade, but eh schway say him yent know nuttne bout de Ring.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	rale	rale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	schway	schway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	de	de	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 man and rale skade but eh schway | eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | yent | nuttne bout |  |  |  | de Ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bout=Stimulus |

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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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