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title: Me yent bin bring no tetter wid me case me no want fur mek me fren f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me yent bin bring no tetter wid me case me no want fur mek me fren feel bad.” Who acts: Me, tetter, fren. 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 200

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Me yent bin bring no tetter wid me case me no want fur mek me fren feel bad.”

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**Who acts:** Me, tetter, fren · **What happens:** bring, wi, mek, feel · **To what, where:** case, 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, tetter, fren), 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:pg76586:2:200
# text = Me yent bin bring no tetter wid me case me no want fur mek me fren feel bad.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	tetter	tetter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
14	mek	mek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | infinitive | Me | case | me |  |  | yent bin *nsubj*; no want fur *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** | past | no tetter | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mek** | infinitive | Me *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | present | fren |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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