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title: Come out an tek you lick, er me gwine bun you up een dis tree.” — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Come out an tek you lick, er me gwine bun you up een dis tree.” Who acts: 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 76

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Come out an tek you lick, er me gwine bun you up een dis tree.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come out, lick, er, gwine up · **To what, where:** tek, me, bun

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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 (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:pg76586:9:76
# text = Come out an tek you lick, er me gwine bun you up een dis tree.”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lick	lick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	er	er	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	gwine	gwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	een	een	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | imperative | you *not said here* | a tek |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tek=Result |
| 2 | **lick** | present | you | a tek *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tek=Source |
| 3 | **er** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gwine up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | bun |  |  |  | you *obj*; een dis tree *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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