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title: De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh fine you in bittle.” Who acts: De Sun, you. 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 5

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De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh fine you in bittle.”

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**Who acts:** De Sun, you · **What happens:** say, kin, gree · **To what, where:** Budder, fine · **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 (De Sun, you), 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:pg76586:2:5
# text = De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh fine you in bittle.”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Budder	budder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kin	kin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bittle	bittle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | De Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kin** *in a quote* | present | you | Budder and ef |  |  |  | in De Sun *= sun*; bed *obl*; ketch *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gree** *in a quote* | present | De Sun *= sun* | fine  you in bittle |  |  |  |  | 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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