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title: Me gone up ter um an me try fuh pass de time er day wid um, fuh me y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me gone up ter um an me try fuh pass de time er day wid um, fuh me yent bin see um sence dat rainy ebenin wen we bury um in Shannul. Who acts: gone ter, yent bin, we. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its depen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 25

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Me gone up ter um an me try fuh pass de time er day wid um, fuh me yent bin see um sence dat rainy ebenin wen we bury um in Shannul.

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**Who acts:** gone ter, yent bin, we · **What happens:** go up, try, pass, see, bury · **To what, where:** me, de, um sence, um, Shannul

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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 (gone ter, yent bin, we), 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:pg76586:14:25
# text = Me gone up ter um an me try fuh pass de time er day wid um, fuh me yent bin see um sence dat rainy ebenin wen we bury um in Shannul.
1	Me	me	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	um	um	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obl	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
20	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sence	sence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	dat	dat	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Shannul	Shannul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive | gone ter | me |  |  |  | um  me *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** *not said to happen* | infinitive | gone ter *not said here* | de |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | yent bin | um sence |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sence=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bury** | present | we | um |  | Shannul |  | dat rainy ebenin wen | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent um=Theme in shannul=Destination |

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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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