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title: Wuh mek you tink trouble kin come topper me?” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wuh mek you tink trouble kin come topper me?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, 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 1, sentence 151

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Wuh mek you tink trouble kin come topper me?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tink, come · **To what, where:** mek, topper

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg76586:1:151
# text = Wuh mek you tink trouble kin come topper me?”
1	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tink	tink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | present | you | mek |  |  |  | trouble kin *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | you *not said here* | topper |  |  |  | me *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=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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