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title: Enty you bin fix fuh kill me an me wife dis mornin arter you done gi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enty you bin fix fuh kill me an me wife dis mornin arter you done gie we de freedom er you house? Who acts: you, Enty, me, wife dis. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 91

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Enty you bin fix fuh kill me an me wife dis mornin arter you done gie we de freedom er you house?

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**Who acts:** you, Enty, me, wife dis · **What happens:** fix, kill, dis, mornin, do, gie · **To what, where:** Enty, me, arter, we

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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 (you, Enty, me, wife dis), 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:pg76586:12:91
# text = Enty you bin fix fuh kill me an me wife dis mornin arter you done gie we de freedom er you house?
1	Enty	Enty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	bin	bin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	mornin	mornin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	arter	art	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
16	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	er	er	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** |  | you | Enty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent enty=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | Enty | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **dis** |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mornin** | gerund | a wife dis *not said here* | arter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | participle | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **gie** | present | a wife dis | we |  |  |  | de freedom *obj* | 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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