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title: Lemme pit dem on you, an den me tink me kin manage fuh go long wid y… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lemme pit dem on you, an den me tink me kin manage fuh go long wid you.” Who acts: Lemme pit 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 95

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Lemme pit dem on you, an den me tink me kin manage fuh go long wid you.”

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**Who acts:** Lemme pit dem · **What happens:** tink, manage, go · **To what, where:** me, fuh

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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 (Lemme pit 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:pg76586:3:95
# text = Lemme pit dem on you, an den me tink me kin manage fuh go long wid you.”
1	Lemme	lemme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
10	tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tink** | infinitive | Lemme pit dem on you | me |  |  |  | a den  me *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | present | Lemme pit dem on you *not said here* | fuh |  |  |  | you *obj*; kin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | Lemme pit dem on you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wid *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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