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title: Den wen you sick, eh gone eensider you lucker a wurrum, an eh gie yo… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den wen you sick, eh gone eensider you lucker a wurrum, an eh gie you all sorter misry. Who acts: you, eh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 20

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Den wen you sick, eh gone eensider you lucker a wurrum, an eh gie you all sorter misry.

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**Who acts:** you, eh · **What happens:** go, lucker, gie · **To what, where:** wurrum, you

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76586:8:20
# text = Den wen you sick, eh gone eensider you lucker a wurrum, an eh gie you all sorter misry.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	eensider	eensider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lucker	lucker	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wurrum	wurrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	misry	misry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lucker** | present | you | a wurrum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gie** | infinitive | a eh | you |  |  |  | all sorter misry *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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