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title: Me run all de way fuh tell you, so you kin sabe you fambly from sick.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me run all de way fuh tell you, so you kin sabe you fambly from sick.” Who acts: Me, you. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 44

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Me run all de way fuh tell you, so you kin sabe you fambly from sick.”

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**Who acts:** Me, you · **What happens:** run, tell, sabe · **To what, where:** way, you, sick · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, you), 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:pg76586:9:44
# text = Me run all de way fuh tell you, so you kin sabe you fambly from sick.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	de	de	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	kin	kin	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sabe	sabe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	fambly	fambly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Me | de way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **sabe** | present | you | you |  | sick |  | fambly, kin *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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