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title: De cunjur man, him berry sad, an eh faid say eh gwine fail, an de Ki… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De cunjur man, him berry sad, an eh faid say eh gwine fail, an de King gwine tek eh head off. Who acts: De cunjur man, eh faid, King. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 4

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De cunjur man, him berry sad, an eh faid say eh gwine fail, an de King gwine tek eh head off.

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**Who acts:** De cunjur man, eh faid, King · **What happens:** berry, say, head off · **To what, where:** gwine fail · **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 cunjur man, eh faid, 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:pg76586:7:4
# text = De cunjur man, him berry sad, an eh faid say eh gwine fail, an de King gwine tek eh head off.
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	6	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	berry	berry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	faid	faid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | present | De cunjur man |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj*; sad *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a eh faid | gwine fail |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fail=Topic |
| 3 | **head off** |  | King |  |  |  |  | gwine *nsubj* | 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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