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title: Mine you chillun well wen dem leetle; an soon es dem big nough fuh w… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mine you chillun well wen dem leetle; an soon es dem big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk. Who acts: Mine, es. 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 7

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Mine you chillun well wen dem leetle; an soon es dem big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.

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**Who acts:** Mine, es · **What happens:** chillun, wuk · **To what, where:** wen dem leetle

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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 (Mine, es), 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:pg76586:6:7
# text = Mine you chillun well wen dem leetle; an soon es dem big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.
1	Mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chillun	chillun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	leetle	leetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
11	es	e	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	nough	nough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wuk	wuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chillun** | present | Mine | wen dem leetle |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wuk** |  | es |  |  |  |  | dem *nsubj*; mek um wuk *conj*; soon *property* | 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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