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title: Dis de place me mammy fotch me up,--dis de place me mammy fotch me u… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis de place me mammy fotch me up,--dis de place me mammy fotch me up:” an eh gone befo Buh Wolf kin ketch um. 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 367

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Dis de place me mammy fotch me up,--dis de place me mammy fotch me up:” an eh gone befo Buh Wolf kin ketch um.

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**What happens:** go · **To what, where:** eh, place mammy fotch

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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: 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:pg76586:1:367
# text = Dis de place me mammy fotch me up,--dis de place me mammy fotch me up:” an eh gone befo Buh Wolf kin ketch um.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	goeswith	_	_
15	mammy	mammy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	goeswith	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | participle |  | a eh *not said here* |  |  |  | befo kin ketch um  Buh Wolf | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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