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title: Me know who mek all dis trouble fur me. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me know who mek all dis trouble fur me. 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 206

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Me know who mek all dis trouble fur me.

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**What happens:** know, mek · **To what, where:** trouble fur · **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: 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:pg76586:1:206
# text = Me know who mek all dis trouble fur me.
1	Me	me	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mek	mek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
6	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mek** | present |  | all trouble fur  me |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | 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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