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title: Den eh tek um, an wrop um up een eh henkerchef, an pit um een eh hat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh tek um, an wrop um up een eh henkerchef, an pit um een eh hat. Who acts: Den. 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 clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 8

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Den eh tek um, an wrop um up een eh henkerchef, an pit um een eh hat.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** um up · **To what, where:** een henkerchef

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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 (Den), 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:pg76586:7:8
# text = Den eh tek um, an wrop um up een eh henkerchef, an pit um een eh hat.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
3	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wrop	wrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	um	um	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	henkerchef	henkerchef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **um up** | infinitive | Den | een henkerchef |  |  |  | hat *obl* | 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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