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title: Wuh mek you ax me dat questun gen? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wuh mek you ax me dat questun gen? Who acts: mek, me. 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 163

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Wuh mek you ax me dat questun gen?

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**Who acts:** mek, me · **What happens:** ax, questun · **To what, where:** 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 (mek, me), 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:pg76586:4:163
# text = Wuh mek you ax me dat questun gen?
1	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ax	ax	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	dat	dat	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	questun	questun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ax** | infinitive | mek |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **questun** |  | me | gen |  |  |  |  | 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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