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title: Me kin show you some ter-night ef you bin born wid caul. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me kin show you some ter-night ef you bin born wid caul. Who acts: Me, night ef. 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 46

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Me kin show you some ter-night ef you bin born wid caul.

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**Who acts:** Me, night ef · **What happens:** show, bear · **To what, where:** night ef, you

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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, night ef), 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:pg76586:14:46
# text = Me kin show you some ter-night ef you bin born wid caul.
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	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	bin	bin	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	caul	caul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** |  | Me | some night ef | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ef=Topic |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive | some night ef *not said here* | you |  |  |  | wid caul *xcomp* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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