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title: Me shame fuh set een de chair, but de blessed Jesus, him courage me,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me shame fuh set een de chair, but de blessed Jesus, him courage me, an me tek me seat, an me so tankful dat me hab one chair een de mansion een de sky. Who acts: Me shame fuh, me. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 126

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Me shame fuh set een de chair, but de blessed Jesus, him courage me, an me tek me seat, an me so tankful dat me hab one chair een de mansion een de sky.

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**Who acts:** Me shame fuh, me · **What happens:** set, bless, tek · **To what, where:** een de chair, Jesus, me

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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 shame fuh, 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:pg76586:14:126
# text = Me shame fuh set een de chair, but de blessed Jesus, him courage me, an me tek me seat, an me so tankful dat me hab one chair een de mansion een de sky.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	conj	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	tankful	tankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
33	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	de	de	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	_
37	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	compound	_	_
38	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle | Me shame fuh *not said here* | een de chair |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient chair=Result |
| 2 | **bless** | past | Me shame fuh | Jesus |  |  |  | him courage  me *obl*; de *nsubj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme |
| 3 | **tek** | infinitive | me | me |  |  |  | seat  me *obj*; tankful hab *obj*; one chair de mansion and de sky *parataxis* | 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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