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title: Me cook some an gen to me chillun, an eh kill two er um.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me cook some an gen to me chillun, an eh kill two er um.” A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 156

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Me cook some an gen to me chillun, an eh kill two er um.”

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**What happens:** cook · **To what, where:** gen chillun

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76586:2:156
# text = Me cook some an gen to me chillun, an eh kill two er um.”
1	Me	me	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	12	appos	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** |  |  | some gen chillun |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chillun=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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