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title: Ef you dont loosne me han an me knee right off, me guine bus you wid… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you dont loosne me han an me knee right off, me guine bus you wide open wid dis head.” Who acts: Ef, me, 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 324

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Ef you dont loosne me han an me knee right off, me guine bus you wide open wid dis head.”

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**Who acts:** Ef, me, you · **What happens:** loosne, bus, wide · **To what, where:** me, open wid dis head

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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, 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:pg76586:1:324
# text = Ef you dont loosne me han an me knee right off, me guine bus you wide open wid dis head.”
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	loosne	loosne	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	compound	_	_
9	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wide	wide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loosne** | infinitive | Ef | me |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; han *obj*; a me knee *obj*; off *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bus** |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wide** | present | you | open wid dis head |  |  |  |  | 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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