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title: Dis es we git ter de big gate, wuh mek wid pearl, eh swing open dout… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dis es we git ter de big gate, wuh mek wid pearl, eh swing open dout tetch um, an de blessed Jesus lead dis poor ole nigger up de shinin pate to de big house way de Lord lib. Who acts: Dis es, git, Jesus, dis. 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 14, sentence 114

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Dis es we git ter de big gate, wuh mek wid pearl, eh swing open dout tetch um, an de blessed Jesus lead dis poor ole nigger up de shinin pate to de big house way de Lord lib.

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**Who acts:** Dis es, git, Jesus, dis · **What happens:** git, bless, lea up, nigger

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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 (Dis es, git, Jesus, 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:pg76586:14:114
# text = Dis es we git ter de big gate, wuh mek wid pearl, eh swing open dout tetch um, an de blessed Jesus lead dis poor ole nigger up de shinin pate to de big house way de Lord lib.
1	Dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	dout	dout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tetch	tetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lead	lea	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
33	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	pate	pate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	nsubj	_	_
37	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
41	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
42	lib	lib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **git** |  | Dis es |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; mek wid pearl *conj*; a de *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** | past | git and mek wid pearl and a de |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lea up** | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | de shinin pate to big house way *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **nigger** |  | dis |  |  |  |  |  | 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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