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title: Me good fren ter Buh Porpus, an wen we git ter de ribber bank me gwi… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me good fren ter Buh Porpus, an wen we git ter de ribber bank me gwine tell Buh Porpus leh we hab er game, an see who kin pull de strongis. Who acts: Me, we, good fren. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7, with its depe
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 100

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Me good fren ter Buh Porpus, an wen we git ter de ribber bank me gwine tell Buh Porpus leh we hab er game, an see who kin pull de strongis.

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**Who acts:** Me, we, good fren · **What happens:** fren, bank, tell, hab, see, pull · **To what, where:** me, Buh leh, game, de strongis · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, we, good fren), 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:pg76586:7:100
# text = Me good fren ter Buh Porpus, an wen we git ter de ribber bank me gwine tell Buh Porpus leh we hab er game, an see who kin pull de strongis.
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	ter	ter	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	ter	ter	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	ribber	ribber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	leh	leh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hab	hab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	er	er	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	kin	kin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
31	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	compound	_	_
33	strongis	strongi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fren** |  | Me |  |  |  |  | ter Buh; a wen *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bank** |  | we | me |  |  |  | git *nsubj*; gwine *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | good fren and a wen | Buh leh |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent leh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hab** | present | we | er's game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | good fren and a wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **pull** | present |  | de strongis |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strongi=Theme |

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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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