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title: Me harte rise up een me troat, an me yent duh say nuttne, but me duh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me harte rise up een me troat, an me yent duh say nuttne, but me duh watch fur de Lord. Who acts: Me, me yent. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 109

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Me harte rise up een me troat, an me yent duh say nuttne, but me duh watch fur de Lord.

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**Who acts:** Me, me yent · **What happens:** rise up, troat, say, watch · **To what, where:** een, nuttne, fur · **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, me yent), 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:pg76586:14:109
# text = Me harte rise up een me troat, an me yent duh say nuttne, but me duh watch fur de Lord.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	harte	harte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	troat	troat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	compound	_	_
11	yent	yent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	duh	duh	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | infinitive | Me | een  me |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **troat** | infinitive | Me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a me yent | nuttne |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuttne=Topic |
| 4 | **watch** |  | me | fur |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=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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