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title: So eh say gen: “Me tell you me deef; come close; set on me nose, so… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So eh say gen: “Me tell you me deef; come close; set on me nose, so me kin yeddy wuh you duh sing.” Who acts: you, Me. 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 29

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So eh say gen: “Me tell you me deef; come close; set on me nose, so me kin yeddy wuh you duh sing.”

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**Who acts:** you, Me · **What happens:** say, tell, come, set · **To what, where:** gen, deef, me, nose · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg76586:5:29
# text = So eh say gen: “Me tell you me deef; come close; set on me nose, so me kin yeddy wuh you duh sing.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
11	deef	deef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
14	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
23	kin	kin	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
27	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | gen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Me | deef | me |  |  | you *iobj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | participle |  | nose |  |  |  | on me; kin yeddy; me *obl*; you *obj*; duh sing *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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