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title: “Me dunno, cept dem want fuh see one anurrer, an wisit dem ole home,… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Me dunno, cept dem want fuh see one anurrer, an wisit dem ole home, an look pon topper dem ole fren.” Who acts: Me dunno. 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 claus
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

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“Me dunno, cept dem want fuh see one anurrer, an wisit dem ole home, an look pon topper dem ole fren.”

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**Who acts:** Me dunno · **What happens:** want, see, look · **To what, where:** one anurrer, topper 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 dunno), 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:pg76586:14:61
# text = “Me dunno, cept dem want fuh see one anurrer, an wisit dem ole home, an look pon topper dem ole fren.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	compound	_	_
3	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cept	cept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	wisit	wisit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fren	fren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Me dunno and cept and dem |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Me dunno and cept and dem *not said here* | one anurrer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anurrer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Me dunno and cept and dem *not said here* | topper dem and ole fren |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dem=Attribute |

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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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