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title: Enty you tell me you no blan wisit me spring fuh git water? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enty you tell me you no blan wisit me spring fuh git water? Who acts: Enty, 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 340

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Enty you tell me you no blan wisit me spring fuh git water?

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**Who acts:** Enty, me · **What happens:** tell, spring · **To what, where:** blan wisit, you, fuh git water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Enty, 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:pg76586:1:340
# text = Enty you tell me you no blan wisit me spring fuh git water?
1	Enty	Enty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wisit	wisit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Enty | no blan wisit | you |  |  | me *iobj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | present | me | fuh git water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location water=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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