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title: De King him do so, an as de tukrey bin er walk pass, de conjur man p… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King him do so, an as de tukrey bin er walk pass, de conjur man pint out one big tukrey-gobbler an tell de King say him hab de Ring een him craw. Who acts: De King, one, King. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, wit
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 31

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De King him do so, an as de tukrey bin er walk pass, de conjur man pint out one big tukrey-gobbler an tell de King say him hab de Ring een him craw.

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**Who acts:** De King, one, King · **What happens:** do, walk, gobbler, say · **To what, where:** pass, tell, man · **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 King, one, King), 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:pg76586:7:31
# text = De King him do so, an as de tukrey bin er walk pass, de conjur man pint out one big tukrey-gobbler an tell de King say him hab de Ring een him craw.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	nsubj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	er	e	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advcl	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
17	conjur	conjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	de	de	ADP	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	de	de	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	list	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	craw	craw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | De King  man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | De King  man *not said here* | pass |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pass=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gobbler** |  | one | a tell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | King | man |  |  |  | hab *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme hab=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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