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title: Me kin see dem dist es plain es me kin see you now. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me kin see dem dist es plain es me kin see you now. Who acts: Me. 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 21

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Me kin see dem dist es plain es me kin see you now.

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**Who acts:** Me · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** dist es, you

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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), 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:pg76586:14:21
# text = Me kin see dem dist es plain es me kin see you now.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	kin	kin	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** |  | Me | dist es and plain es |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer e=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | me | you |  |  | now | kin *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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