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title: Den gen, eh kin tek de shape er man, en pass isself off fur great ge… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den gen, eh kin tek de shape er man, en pass isself off fur great gentleman long de lady. Who acts: tek de shape. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 21

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Den gen, eh kin tek de shape er man, en pass isself off fur great gentleman long de lady.

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**Who acts:** tek de shape · **What happens:** pass off · **To what, where:** isself

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tek de shape), 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:pg76586:8:21
# text = Den gen, eh kin tek de shape er man, en pass isself off fur great gentleman long de lady.
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
5	kin	kin	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	isself	isself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	compound	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass off** | infinitive | tek de shape | isself |  |  |  | er's man and en *nsubj*; fur *obj*; long de lady *obj* | 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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