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title: Me hole on ter me Jesus, an him tell me not teh fade, dat nuttne shi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me hole on ter me Jesus, an him tell me not teh fade, dat nuttne shill trouble me. Who acts: Me hole, dat nuttne. 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 153

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Me hole on ter me Jesus, an him tell me not teh fade, dat nuttne shill trouble me.

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**Who acts:** Me hole, dat nuttne · **What happens:** not tell, trouble · **To what, where:** fade, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 hole, dat nuttne), 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:pg76586:14:153
# text = Me hole on ter me Jesus, an him tell me not teh fade, dat nuttne shill trouble me.
1	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
13	teh	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art|Typo=Yes	14	det	_	_
14	fade	fade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shill	shill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Me hole on me | the fade | me |  |  | Jesus  Jesus *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **trouble** |  | dat nuttne | me |  |  |  |  | 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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