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title: Ef me ebber ketch you close dis ribber, me guine larne you how ter c… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef me ebber ketch you close dis ribber, me guine larne you how ter come fool long me.” Who acts: you, 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 207

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Ef me ebber ketch you close dis ribber, me guine larne you how ter come fool long me.”

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** close, larne, come · **To what, where:** Ef ebber ketch, fool

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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, me), 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:pg76586:1:207
# text = Ef me ebber ketch you close dis ribber, me guine larne you how ter come fool long me.”
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	larne	larne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present | you | Ef ebber ketch |  |  |  | dis ribber *obj* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribber=Patient |
| 2 | **larne** |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | you | fool |  |  |  | me *obl*; ter *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fool=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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