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title: Heap er time me jine compny wid dem der big road, an try fuh gage de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Heap er time me jine compny wid dem der big road, an try fuh gage dem een conbersation, an fine out who dem yis, an how dey mek out; but dem nebber will tell me, an, befo long, look luk dem git bex, an den dey fade way een de wood an leff me lone een de road.” Who acts: try, time me jine, luk. A sen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 18

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Heap er time me jine compny wid dem der big road, an try fuh gage dem een conbersation, an fine out who dem yis, an how dey mek out; but dem nebber will tell me, an, befo long, look luk dem git bex, an den dey fade way een de wood an leff me lone een de road.”

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**Who acts:** try, time me jine, luk · **What happens:** conbersation, yi, tell, look, fade · **To what, where:** me, way · **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 (try, time me jine, luk), 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:pg76586:14:18
# text = Heap er time me jine compny wid dem der big road, an try fuh gage dem een conbersation, an fine out who dem yis, an how dey mek out; but dem nebber will tell me, an, befo long, look luk dem git bex, an den dey fade way een de wood an leff me lone een de road.”
1	Heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	jine	jine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
6	compny	compny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	gage	gage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	conbersation	conbersation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	yis	yi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
31	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	nebber	nebber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	befo	befo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
47	luk	luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
48	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
49	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	bex	bex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
55	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
56	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
57	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
58	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	59	compound	_	_
59	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
60	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
62	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	acl:relcl	_	_
64	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	66	amod	_	_
65	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	64	flat	_	_
66	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conbersation** |  | try |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yi** |  | time me jine and a fuh dem conbersation and a fine dem yis and a dey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | time me jine and a fuh dem conbersation and a fine dem yis and a dey |  | me |  |  | dem nebber *nsubj*; a befo *conj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fade** | present | luk | way and een de wood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient |

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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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