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title: Me see dem wuk dem mouf same luk dem bin er talk ter one anurrer, an… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me see dem wuk dem mouf same luk dem bin er talk ter one anurrer, an shake dem head, an pint dem finger. Who acts: Me, same luk dem. 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 e
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 15

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Me see dem wuk dem mouf same luk dem bin er talk ter one anurrer, an shake dem head, an pint dem finger.

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**Who acts:** Me, same luk dem · **What happens:** see, bin · **To what, where:** wuk dem mouf, er talk

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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, same luk dem), 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:pg76586:14:15
# text = Me see dem wuk dem mouf same luk dem bin er talk ter one anurrer, an shake dem head, an pint dem finger.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mouf	mouf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Me | wuk dem mouf |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouf=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bin** | present | same luk dem | er talk and a dem head and a dem finger |  |  |  | ter one anurrer | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent talk=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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