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title: Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, an try me bes, me scacely kin mek bittle nough fuh me an me wife fuh eat.” A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

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Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, an try me bes, me scacely kin mek bittle nough fuh me an me wife fuh eat.”

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**What happens:** try, eat · **To what, where:** me, der wuk

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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 4. 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:pg76586:4:123
# text = Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, an try me bes, me scacely kin mek bittle nough fuh me an me wife fuh eat.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sunrise	sunrise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	bes	be	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	scacely	scacely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	kin	kin	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	bittle	bittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	nough	nough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
29	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | bes  me *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer be=Result |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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