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title: Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de cal… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg. Who acts: Me, brag, bigger ner. 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 198

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Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg.

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**Who acts:** Me, brag, bigger ner · **What happens:** tetter, er · **To what, where:** me

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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: who acts (Me, brag, bigger ner), 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:pg76586:2:198
# text = Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	befo	befo	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	blan	blan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	tetter	tetter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tetter	tetter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	ner	ner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	er	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tetter** | infinitive | Me |  |  |  |  | befo blan plant  me | tree rules |
| 2 | **tetter** | infinitive | brag |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **er** | past | bigger ner | me |  |  |  | leg *obj* | 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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