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title: “Yes, me chile,” he answered, “me suttenly did hab er wision, an er… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, me chile,” he answered, “me suttenly did hab er wision, an er berry good one too.” Who acts: Leh. 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 91

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“Yes, me chile,” he answered, “me suttenly did hab er wision, an er berry good one too.”

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**Who acts:** Leh · **What happens:** answer, er · **To what, where:** wision · **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 (Leh), 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:pg76586:14:91
# text = “Yes, me chile,” he answered, “me suttenly did hab er wision, an er berry good one too.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	compound	_	_
5	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	suttenly	suttenly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	er	er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	wision	wision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	er	er	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Leh |  |  |  |  | me chile *ccomp* | tree rules |
| 2 | **er** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Leh | wision |  |  |  | hab *nsubj*; suttenly *property* | tree rules |

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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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