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title: Dat same ebenin all tree dem serbant, dem come ter de cunjur man an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dat same ebenin all tree dem serbant, dem come ter de cunjur man an fetch de Ring, an confess say dem been tek um, an dem bague de cunjur man fuh fix plan fuh clear dem. Who acts: same ebenin, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, O
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

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Dat same ebenin all tree dem serbant, dem come ter de cunjur man an fetch de Ring, an confess say dem been tek um, an dem bague de cunjur man fuh fix plan fuh clear dem.

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**Who acts:** same ebenin, dem · **What happens:** come, confess, say, be · **To what, where:** ter man, tek um · **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 (same ebenin, dem), 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:pg76586:7:22
# text = Dat same ebenin all tree dem serbant, dem come ter de cunjur man an fetch de Ring, an confess say dem been tek um, an dem bague de cunjur man fuh fix plan fuh clear dem.
1	Dat	that	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	ter	ter	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	cunjur	cunjur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	confess	confess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	bague	bague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
32	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
38	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | that same ebenin | ter man  a fetch |  |  |  | all dem serbant and dem *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **confess** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | participle | dem | tek um and a dem bague |  |  |  | a dem bague *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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