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title: Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen u… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen um ter you, eh yent guine do you no good, an you guine dead a po man.” Who acts: Tek um, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4, with its dependency t
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 138

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Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen um ter you, eh yent guine do you no good, an you guine dead a po man.”

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**Who acts:** Tek um, you · **What happens:** tell, um, gen, guine · **To what, where:** wife way, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Tek um, you), 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:pg76586:4:138
# text = Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen um ter you, eh yent guine do you no good, an you guine dead a po man.”
1	Tek	Tek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
19	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
20	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
24	yent	yent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	po	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Tek um but member ef | wife way | you |  |  | ter you | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
| 2 | **um** |  | you | wife way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gen** |  |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **guine** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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