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title: De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um yo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um you git um long me?” Who acts: De man, You, bin. 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 every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 161

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De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um you git um long me?”

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**Who acts:** De man, You, bin · **What happens:** say, sho, tell, git · **To what, where:** you, De man · **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 (De man, You, bin), 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:pg76586:4:161
# text = De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um you git um long me?”
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ax	ax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sho	sho	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	um	um	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | De man |  |  |  |  | No. um gen *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sho** *in a quote* | present | You | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | no bin |  | De man *= man* |  |  | long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **git** *in a quote* |  | 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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