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title: De blessed Jesus tek me tru de gaden, down by de ribber, an een de o… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De blessed Jesus tek me tru de gaden, down by de ribber, an een de orchud way de bigges peach, an fig, an orange, an pomegranate, an watermillion, an all kin der fruit der grow. Who acts: De, Jesus. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 136

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De blessed Jesus tek me tru de gaden, down by de ribber, an een de orchud way de bigges peach, an fig, an orange, an pomegranate, an watermillion, an all kin der fruit der grow.

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**Who acts:** De, Jesus · **What happens:** bless, tek, grow · **To what, where:** 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 (De, Jesus), 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:pg76586:14:136
# text = De blessed Jesus tek me tru de gaden, down by de ribber, an een de orchud way de bigges peach, an fig, an orange, an pomegranate, an watermillion, an all kin der fruit der grow.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tek	tek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	tru	tru	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat	_	_
8	gaden	gaden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	een	een	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	orchud	orchud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
21	bigges	bigge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
39	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
40	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | past | De |  |  |  |  | by de ribber | tree rules |
| 2 | **tek** | infinitive | Jesus | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | De *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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