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title: You git way one time, but narruh chance gwine come; an de nex time m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: You git way one time, but narruh chance gwine come; an de nex time me git you een me power me yent gwine wait topper nuttne, but me gwine pick you bone right off.” Who acts: chance gwine, nex time, you, power. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 101

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You git way one time, but narruh chance gwine come; an de nex time me git you een me power me yent gwine wait topper nuttne, but me gwine pick you bone right off.”

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**Who acts:** chance gwine, nex time, you, power, me · **What happens:** come, git, een, nuttne, pick · **To what, where:** git way, me, bone, you

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance gwine, nex time, you, power), 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:pg76586:12:101
# text = You git way one time, but narruh chance gwine come; an de nex time me git you een me power me yent gwine wait topper nuttne, but me gwine pick you bone right off.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	narruh	narruh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	dep	_	_
15	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	compound	_	_
18	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	een	een	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	goeswith	_	_
24	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	gwine	gwine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	right	right	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	off	off	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | chance gwine | git way  You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **git** |  | a nex time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **een** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **nuttne** |  | power  me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick** | present | me | bone | you |  |  | off *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary bone=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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