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title: Den eh mark de bud so him kin know um gen, an eh tun um loose. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh mark de bud so him kin know um gen, an eh tun um loose. Who acts: mark. 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 27

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Den eh mark de bud so him kin know um gen, an eh tun um loose.

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**Who acts:** mark · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** um gen, de bud

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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 (mark), 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:pg76586:7:27
# text = Den eh mark de bud so him kin know um gen, an eh tun um loose.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **know** |  | mark | um gen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gen=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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