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title: Enty you bin tell me you nebber meet up wid trouble? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enty you bin tell me you nebber meet up wid trouble? Who acts: Enty, nebber. 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 195

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Enty you bin tell me you nebber meet up wid trouble?

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**Who acts:** Enty, nebber · **What happens:** tell, meet up · **To what, where:** you, wid trouble · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enty, nebber), 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:pg76586:1:195
# text = Enty you bin tell me you nebber meet up wid trouble?
1	Enty	Enty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
7	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* |  | Enty |  | you |  |  | me *iobj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic |
| 2 | **meet up** | present | nebber | wid trouble |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Co-Agent |

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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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