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title: Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de money wuh me bin gen you?” Who acts: You, Dem talk togerrur, wife. 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 pragmatics of 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 158

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Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de money wuh me bin gen you?”

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**Who acts:** You, Dem talk togerrur, wife · **What happens:** bin, show · **To what, where:** money, you, gen

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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 (You, Dem talk togerrur, wife), 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:pg76586:4:158
# text = Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de money wuh me bin gen you?”
1	Dem	dem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | present | Dem talk togerrur | wife's money | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Topic |
| 3 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Den  eh's wife *= wife* | gen |  |  |  | you *obj* | 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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