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title: Me guine trow you in de brier patch, so de brier kin cratch you life… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me guine trow you in de brier patch, so de brier kin cratch you life out.” Who acts: Me guine, 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 358

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Me guine trow you in de brier patch, so de brier kin cratch you life out.”

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**Who acts:** Me guine, you · **What happens:** trow out, life · **To what, where:** you, de brier patch

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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 (Me guine, 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:pg76586:1:358
# text = Me guine trow you in de brier patch, so de brier kin cratch you life out.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	compound	_	_
2	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trow	trow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brier	brier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cratch	cratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trow out** | present | Me guine | you |  | de brier patch |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **life** |  | 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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