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title: De Cunjur Man larne um heap er curous ting. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Cunjur Man larne um heap er curous ting. Who acts: De Man. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 105

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De Cunjur Man larne um heap er curous ting.

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**Who acts:** De Man · **What happens:** larne · **To what, where:** um heap

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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 (De Man), 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:pg76586:9:105
# text = De Cunjur Man larne um heap er curous ting.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Cunjur	Cunjur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	larne	larne	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	um	um	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	curous	curous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **larne** | past | De Man | um heap |  |  |  | curous ting *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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