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title: Me see dem plain, en me try fuh pint dem out to George. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me see dem plain, en me try fuh pint dem out to George. 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 37

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Me see dem plain, en me try fuh pint dem out to George.

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**Who acts:** Me · **What happens:** see, try · **To what, where:** dem plain, fuh pint dem

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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:pg76586:14:37
# text = Me see dem plain, en me try fuh pint dem out to George.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	pint	pint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Me | dem plain and en |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus |
| 2 | **try** | present | me | fuh pint dem |  |  |  | out *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dem=Eventuality |

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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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