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title: De nex mornin wen de edder serbant duh clean de King shoes, de cunju… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex mornin wen de edder serbant duh clean de King shoes, de cunjur man gone up ter um an pint eh finger right een eh face, an eh say: “You duh de tird man wuh know bout dis Ring an help fuh tief um.” Who acts: eh, You, de tird man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the ve
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 20

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De nex mornin wen de edder serbant duh clean de King shoes, de cunjur man gone up ter um an pint eh finger right een eh face, an eh say: “You duh de tird man wuh know bout dis Ring an help fuh tief um.”

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**Who acts:** eh, You, de tird man · **What happens:** go up, say, man, know · **To what, where:** de cunjur man, dis Ring, 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 (eh, You, de tird 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:pg76586:7:20
# text = De nex mornin wen de edder serbant duh clean de King shoes, de cunjur man gone up ter um an pint eh finger right een eh face, an eh say: “You duh de tird man wuh know bout dis Ring an help fuh tief um.”
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	7	compound	_	_
6	edder	edder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
15	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
20	um	um	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	right	right	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
38	tird	tird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
40	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
41	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | participle |  | de cunjur man  een eh face *not said here* |  |  |  | um a eh finger; ter *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a eh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **man** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | de tird man *not said here* | dis Ring  a tief um |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ring=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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