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title: De King, him bin so rejoice eh gib high praise ter de cunjur man, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De King, him bin so rejoice eh gib high praise ter de cunjur man, an eh gie um big money, an mek um rich. Who acts: De King, eh. 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 33

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De King, him bin so rejoice eh gib high praise ter de cunjur man, an eh gie um big money, an mek um rich.

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**Who acts:** De King, eh · **What happens:** rejoice, gib, gie · **To what, where:** high praise ter, um

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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, eh), 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:pg76586:7:33
# text = De King, him bin so rejoice eh gib high praise ter de cunjur man, an eh gie um big money, an mek um rich.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	bin	bin	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	eh	eh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gib	gib	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
14	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | present | De King  man |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gib** | present | eh | high praise ter and de cunjur man and a eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gie** | infinitive | eh *not said here* | um and big money and a mek um |  |  |  |  | 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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