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title: Me see heap er pooty wite chillun een me time, but me nebber bin see… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me see heap er pooty wite chillun een me time, but me nebber bin see nuttne teh come up ter dem, nur ter ketch nigh um. Who acts: Me, pooty, nuttne teh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 104

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Me see heap er pooty wite chillun een me time, but me nebber bin see nuttne teh come up ter dem, nur ter ketch nigh um.

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**Who acts:** Me, pooty, nuttne teh · **What happens:** see, wite, come up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, pooty, nuttne teh), 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:pg76586:14:104
# text = Me see heap er pooty wite chillun een me time, but me nebber bin see nuttne teh come up ter dem, nur ter ketch nigh um.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	er	er	PUNCT	GW	_	6	punct	_	_
5	pooty	pooty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wite	wite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	flat	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	teh	teh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	nur	nur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Me |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wite** | infinitive | pooty |  |  |  | time | heap *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | me |  |  |  |  | nebber bin *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come up** | present | nuttne teh |  |  |  |  | ter dem | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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