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title: All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie you none er dem.” Who acts: All, yent guine. 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 44

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All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie you none er dem.”

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**Who acts:** All, yent guine · **What happens:** get, know, gie · **To what, where:** me, you · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, yent guine), 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:pg76586:2:44
# text = All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie you none er dem.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	compound	_	_
9	chillun	chillun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gie	gie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	compound	_	_
20	er	er	X	FW	_	21	compound	_	_
21	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | All | me |  |  |  | wife *obj*; a me chillun  me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | All *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gie** | present | yent guine | you |  |  |  | none er dem *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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