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title: Eh sen fuh de cunjur man, an eh tell um eh time mose out, an dat ef… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh sen fuh de cunjur man, an eh tell um eh time mose out, an dat ef eh no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine kill um. Who acts: de cunjur man, dat ef, fine de Ring. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its dependency
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 9

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Eh sen fuh de cunjur man, an eh tell um eh time mose out, an dat ef eh no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine kill um.

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**Who acts:** de cunjur man, dat ef, fine de Ring · **What happens:** mose out, eh, kill · **To what, where:** de cunjur man, 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 cunjur man, dat ef, fine de Ring), 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:pg76586:7:9
# text = Eh sen fuh de cunjur man, an eh tell um eh time mose out, an dat ef eh no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine kill um.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	sen	sen	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
5	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	mose	mose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eh	eh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	sundown	sundown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mose out** | infinitive | de cunjur man  Eh *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eh** | past | a dat ef | de cunjur man  Eh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | present | no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine | um |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme |

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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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