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title: Ef you dont go long and lemme git some water, me guine slap you ober.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you dont go long and lemme git some water, me guine slap you ober.” Who acts: Ef, 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 301

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Ef you dont go long and lemme git some water, me guine slap you ober.”

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**Who acts:** Ef, you · **What happens:** go, ober · **To what, where:** long git

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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 (Ef, 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:pg76586:1:301
# text = Ef you dont go long and lemme git some water, me guine slap you ober.”
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lemme	lemme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ober	ober	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Ef | long git |  |  |  | some water *obl*; me *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme |
| 2 | **ober** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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