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title: Me guine ketch um now fuh me dinner.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me guine ketch um now fuh me dinner.” 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 31

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Me guine ketch um now fuh me dinner.”

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**To what, where:** dinner

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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: 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:pg76586:3:31
# text = Me guine ketch um now fuh me dinner.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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