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title: Ef you dont loose me, me guine box de life outer you wid dis tarruh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you dont loose me, me guine box de life outer you wid dis tarruh han.” Who acts: Ef, 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 307

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Ef you dont loose me, me guine box de life outer you wid dis tarruh han.”

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**Who acts:** Ef, me · **What happens:** lose, box · **To what, where:** me

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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, 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:pg76586:1:307
# text = Ef you dont loose me, me guine box de life outer you wid dis tarruh han.”
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
4	loose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | infinitive | Ef | me |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 2 | **box** |  | me |  |  |  |  | de life | 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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