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title: People wuh wunt mek up dem mine in time wuh dem mean fuh do guine gi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: People wuh wunt mek up dem mine in time wuh dem mean fuh do guine git leff. Who acts: People, dem. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 141

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People wuh wunt mek up dem mine in time wuh dem mean fuh do guine git leff.

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**Who acts:** People, dem · **What happens:** wunt, mean, do · **To what, where:** mek, fuh, guine git leff

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, dem), 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:pg76586:3:141
# text = People wuh wunt mek up dem mine in time wuh dem mean fuh do guine git leff.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	wunt	wunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	list	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	leff	leff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wunt** | infinitive | People | mek  dem  mine |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | dem | fuh |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | dem *not said here* | guine git leff |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leff=Eventuality |

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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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