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title: Me kin tell you bout heap er people me bin meet an see arter dem don… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me kin tell you bout heap er people me bin meet an see arter dem done dead an bury. Who acts: Me, people, see arter dem. 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 44

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Me kin tell you bout heap er people me bin meet an see arter dem done dead an bury.

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**Who acts:** Me, people, see arter dem · **What happens:** tell, bin, meet, see, do · **To what, where:** bout heap, you, see arter dem, bury · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, people, see arter dem), 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:pg76586:14:44
# text = Me kin tell you bout heap er people me bin meet an see arter dem done dead an bury.
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	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	er	er	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
10	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	compound	_	_
14	arter	arter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bury	bury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* |  | Me | bout heap | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heap=Topic |
| 2 | **bin** | present | people  me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | infinitive | people  me *not said here* | a see arter dem |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dem=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **do** | participle | a see arter dem *not said here* | a bury |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bury=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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