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title: Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out ber… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out berry triflin. Who acts: Ef, you, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 4

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Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out berry triflin.

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**Who acts:** Ef, you, eh · **What happens:** do, chillun, shame, tun out · **To what, where:** gwine, berry triflin

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ef, you, eh), 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:pg76586:6:4
# text = Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out berry triflin.
1	Ef	Ef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chillun	chillun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shame	shame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tun	tun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	triflin	triflin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Ef |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chillun** | present | you | gwine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shame** | present | you | gwine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gwine=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tun out** | future | a eh | berry triflin |  |  |  |  | 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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