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title: Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go f… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go fuh keep me pintment.” Who acts: prommus fuh bactize. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 118

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Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go fuh keep me pintment.”

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**Who acts:** prommus fuh bactize · **What happens:** go, keep · **To what, where:** me

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prommus fuh bactize), 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:pg76586:5:118
# text = Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go fuh keep me pintment.”
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	compound	_	_
4	prommus	prommus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	er	er	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	compound	_	_
15	mus	mus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	pintment	pintment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | prommus fuh bactize er chile dis and berry hour and a me mus |  |  |  |  | fuh *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | prommus fuh bactize er chile dis and berry hour and a me mus *not said here* | me |  |  |  | pintment *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pintment=Attribute |

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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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