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title: Me guine help you outer de bed, an ef you cant tek you foot, me guin… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me guine help you outer de bed, an ef you cant tek you foot, me guine tote you.” Who acts: Me guine, you, me. 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 87

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Me guine help you outer de bed, an ef you cant tek you foot, me guine tote you.”

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**Who acts:** Me guine, you, me · **What happens:** help, cant, foot, tote · **To what, where:** you, ef

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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 (Me guine, you, me), 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:pg76586:3:87
# text = Me guine help you outer de bed, an ef you cant tek you foot, me guine tote you.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	compound	_	_
2	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cant	cant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	guine	guine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tote	tote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Me guine |  | you |  |  | outer de bed *obl* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cant** | present | you | a ef |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **foot** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tote** |  | me |  |  |  |  | you *goeswith* | 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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