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title: You cahr um tel you git een de middle er de ole fiel, an den you ope… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: You cahr um tel you git een de middle er de ole fiel, an den you open um, an you guine fine out wuh call trouble.” Who acts: You, een. 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 72

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You cahr um tel you git een de middle er de ole fiel, an den you open um, an you guine fine out wuh call trouble.”

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**Who acts:** You, een · **What happens:** cahr, git, fiel, open, guine, call · **To what, where:** um, trouble · **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 (You, een), 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:pg76586:4:72
# text = You cahr um tel you git een de middle er de ole fiel, an den you open um, an you guine fine out wuh call trouble.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cahr	cahr	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	een	een	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
9	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	er	er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
12	ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fiel	fiel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	guine	guine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cahr** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **git** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fiel** |  | een |  |  |  |  | a den *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | present | you | um |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme |
| 5 | **guine** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Recipient |

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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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