---
title: You lib pon tief, an you gwine tell me how fer do jestice? — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: You lib pon tief, an you gwine tell me how fer do jestice? Who acts: You, gwine, fer. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/47/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) / 47

# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 47

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You lib pon tief, an you gwine tell me how fer do jestice?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** You, gwine, fer · **What happens:** lib, gwine, tell, do · **To what, where:** pon tief, me, jestice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, gwine, fer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:47
# text = You lib pon tief, an you gwine tell me how fer do jestice?
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lib	lib	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pon	pon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tief	tief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	jestice	jestice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lib** | present | You | pon tief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gwine** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a gwine |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | fer | jestice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jestice=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/46/)
- next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/48/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/)