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title: Me yent guine leh dis rain lick me dis way no mo.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me yent guine leh dis rain lick me dis way no mo.” 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 217

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Me yent guine leh dis rain lick me dis way no mo.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lick, dis · **To what, where:** Me, way

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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:pg76586:1:217
# text = Me yent guine leh dis rain lick me dis way no mo.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
7	lick	lick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	dis	dis	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | imperative | you *not said here* | Me |  |  |  | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dis** | infinitive | you *not said here* | way |  |  |  | no mo *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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