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title: Me kin walk long um der road, talk ter um een de bush, see dem een m… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me kin walk long um der road, talk ter um een de bush, see dem een me bed, and yeddy um een de grabe yad. Who acts: Me. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13, 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 13, sentence 113

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Me kin walk long um der road, talk ter um een de bush, see dem een me bed, and yeddy um een de grabe yad.

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**Who acts:** Me · **What happens:** walk, talk, see · **To what, where:** um der road, dem me bed

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:13:113
# text = Me kin walk long um der road, talk ter um een de bush, see dem een me bed, and yeddy um een de grabe yad.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	amod	_	_
11	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat	_	_
14	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	compound	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	um	um	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	3	obl	_	_
25	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat	_	_
27	grabe	grabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
28	yad	yad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** |  | Me | um der road |  |  |  | ter bush *obl:unmarked* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | Me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Me *not said here* | dem me bed |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus |

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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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