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title: Me tase um, an eh sweet mone anyting me ebber drink een me life. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me tase um, an eh sweet mone anyting me ebber drink een me life. Who acts: eh sweet mone. 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 129

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Me tase um, an eh sweet mone anyting me ebber drink een me life.

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**Who acts:** eh sweet mone · **What happens:** anyt · **To what, where:** me, tase um

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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 (eh sweet mone), 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:pg76586:14:129
# text = Me tase um, an eh sweet mone anyting me ebber drink een me life.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	tase	tase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mone	mone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	anyting	anyt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	ebber	ebb	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anyt** | gerund | a eh sweet mone and een life *not said here* | me |  |  |  | ebber drink *obj* | 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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