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title: De cunjur man, him gone right off ter de King, an eh tell um say him… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cunjur man, him gone right off ter de King, an eh tell um say him kin pint out way de Ring day. Who acts: man, De cunjur man. 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 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

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De cunjur man, him gone right off ter de King, an eh tell um say him kin pint out way de Ring day.

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**Who acts:** man, De cunjur man · **What happens:** go, say · **To what, where:** ter, de, way · **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 (man, De cunjur 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:pg76586:7:28
# text = De cunjur man, him gone right off ter de King, an eh tell um say him kin pint out way de Ring day.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	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	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	kin	kin	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	case	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	de	de	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle | man | ter |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | De cunjur man and a eh tell um | de |  | way de Ring day |  | kin's pint *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme pint=Manner |

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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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