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title: De tree serbant too, wuh bin de tief, dem so happy cause de cunjur m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De tree serbant too, wuh bin de tief, dem so happy cause de cunjur man yent spose dem ter de King dat dem mek present ter um too, an bin eh fren all dem life. Who acts: De tree serbant, cunjur man. 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 34

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De tree serbant too, wuh bin de tief, dem so happy cause de cunjur man yent spose dem ter de King dat dem mek present ter um too, an bin eh fren all dem life.

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**Who acts:** De tree serbant, cunjur man · **What happens:** cause, ter · **To what, where:** de

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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 tree serbant, 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:pg76586:7:34
# text = De tree serbant too, wuh bin de tief, dem so happy cause de cunjur man yent spose dem ter de King dat dem mek present ter um too, an bin eh fren all dem life.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	serbant	serbant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	spose	spose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
22	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	mek	mek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
34	eh	eh	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	33	appos	_	_
35	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	flat	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
37	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **cause** | present | De tree serbant and bin tief and dem | de |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition de=Patient |
| 2 | **ter** |  | cunjur man |  |  |  |  | King dat dem *conj*; a bin *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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