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title: One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fu… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fuh git him knowledge, so him kin stonish tarruh people an mek dem bliebe say him bin wise mo ner ebrybody. Who acts: One time eh, eh, mek dem bliebe, tarruh people. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the verna
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 104

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One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fuh git him knowledge, so him kin stonish tarruh people an mek dem bliebe say him bin wise mo ner ebrybody.

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**Who acts:** One time eh, eh, mek dem bliebe, tarruh people · **What happens:** go, um, stonish, people, say, bin · **To what, where:** One time eh, man, eh, wise ner ebrybody · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One time eh, eh, mek dem bliebe, tarruh people), 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:pg76586:9:104
# text = One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fuh git him knowledge, so him kin stonish tarruh people an mek dem bliebe say him bin wise mo ner ebrybody.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Cunjur	Cunjur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	larne	larne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
12	um	um	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	stonish	stonish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
26	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bliebe	bliebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	ebrybody	ebrybody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | One time eh *not said here* |  |  |  | ter one wise Cunjur Man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **um** | infinitive | One time eh | man |  |  |  | way *obl:unmarked*; a fuh git  man and knowledge *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stonish** | present | eh |  |  |  |  | kin *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **people** |  | a mek dem bliebe |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | tarruh people | eh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bin** | infinitive | tarruh people *not said here* | wise ner ebrybody |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ebrybody=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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