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title: Well, me an Sam meet um one moon-shiny night een de big road, wid de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, me an Sam meet um one moon-shiny night een de big road, wid de een er de rope tie roun eh neck. Who acts: me, de big road. 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
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 43

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Well, me an Sam meet um one moon-shiny night een de big road, wid de een er de rope tie roun eh neck.

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**Who acts:** me, de big road · **What happens:** meet, tie · **To what, where:** um, eh neck

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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, de big road), 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:pg76586:14:43
# text = Well, me an Sam meet um one moon-shiny night een de big road, wid de een er de rope tie roun eh neck.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	compound	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	compound	_	_
20	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat	_	_
21	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
22	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
23	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advmod	_	_
24	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	roun	roun	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	dep	_	_
26	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | infinitive | me | um |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **tie** | present | de big road | eh neck |  |  | night |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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