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title: Me foller um, an wen eh come teh eh own grabe eh pit eh head down, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me foller um, an wen eh come teh eh own grabe eh pit eh head down, an eh gie two er tree whul, an down eh gone. Who acts: foller um, grabe. 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 pragmati
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 27

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Me foller um, an wen eh come teh eh own grabe eh pit eh head down, an eh gie two er tree whul, an down eh gone.

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**Who acts:** foller um, grabe · **What happens:** come, head down, gie · **To what, where:** two

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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 (foller um, grabe), 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:pg76586:14:27
# text = Me foller um, an wen eh come teh eh own grabe eh pit eh head down, an eh gie two er tree whul, an down eh gone.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	foller	foll	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	teh	teh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	eh	eh	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	grabe	grabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	nsubj	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	whul	whul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	gone	gone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | foller um and a wen eh |  |  |  |  | teh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **head down** |  | grabe |  |  |  |  | eh *nmod:poss*; down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gie** | infinitive | foller um and a wen eh *not said here* | two |  |  |  |  | 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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